New Feature: ASP.NET and C-Sharp Programming

This past week at work I began building a very basic Intranet site. I started out building it on PHP, as that is what I am most familiar with and could have had something up and running fairly quickly. A couple road blocks stopped this from happening in the middle of the week. If I wanted to build the Intranet site it would have to be built on Microsoft technology. I was okay with this as it was something new for me to learn. More skills the better, especially in the current economy. So it is settled, ASP.NET with C# it is.

The first thing I come to realize is most of the tutorials I find are all based off the WYSIWYG features of Visual Studio. Coming from PHP this is a huge difference. The features are great and all, but I want to know what is going on behind the scenes before I begin rapidly developing all the time in the WYSIWYG editor.

With the start of this project at work, I hope to begin a new chapter with my personal site here. I will be posting tips, tricks and any other stumbling blocks I come across as I learn ASP.NET and C# coming from a PHP background. Hopefully this will help someone out there and speed up their development time when learning this technology. I know this will help me learn it and keep a nice reference for later use. If there are any expert programmers in this area reading this I ask you to help along the way. If I post something and there is an easier way of doing it or I am just completely wrong let me know. Learning is good and benefits everyone.