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What are the best resources for someone who wants to move from .NET desktop development to .NET web development? All the popular sites like Udacity and FreeCode

What are the best resources for someone who wants to move from .NET desktop development to .NET web development? All the popular sites like Udacity and FreeCodeBootcamp rarely (if ever) touch the MS stack. I know this isn't exactly the right place to ask, but I've had no luck anywhere else...

ArchReaper 10y ago
I don't know of any reliable tutorials, but if you want to try jumping into a project, you can download Umbraco and follow some basic 'Getting Started' guides. Some of what you will learn is Umbraco-specific, but you'll also see a lot of how .NET likes to do things for web projects. Alternatively, you can just get Visual Studio and use their "ASP.NET Web Application" template and poke through what is generated, if you want something a bit smaller to start with. Links: Umbraco: https://umbraco.com/ https://umbraco.com/ Getting Started Guide: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/ https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/
phhlho 10y ago
If you are already familiar with .NET, you might find some courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy a good starting point. There is a web development category: https://mva.microsoft.com/training-topics/web-development#!index=6&lang=1033 https://mva.microsoft.com/training-topics/web-development#!i... Looking at the courses available, I would probably start with: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-started-with-web-technologies-15937 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-sta... then look into either ASP.NET MVC: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/introduction-to-aspnet-mvc-8322 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/introductio... or ASP.NET Core: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/intermediate-aspnet-core-10-16964?l=Kvl35KmJD_4306218965 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/intermediat... This is coming from someone that hasn't actually used these, so take my recommendations with a grain of salt.
runjake 10y ago
The training resources available on the ASP.net website are excellent and cover all skill levels. https://www.asp.net https://www.asp.net
po1nter 10y ago
if you want to learn .Net development then you should try pluralsight. it's a great resource for everything .net. I'm on mobile right now but you can get free 3 months subscription. you can also get a free month I think to wintellect.
ukyrgf 10y ago
Your absolute best bet is to sign up for Visual Studio Dev Essentials and try out all the 3 month trials they give. Pluralsight in particular is a really great resource. https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/ https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/
keithnz 10y ago
You need to be specific. Most people doing web on .NET probablly use .NET Asp.NET MVC... I've used it a lot, and it's ok. But there are alternatives. For instance using F# and https://suave.io/ https://suave.io/ Which I think is really nice.
pjmlp 10y ago
Pluralsight is the best training site for MS related technologies, it is how they started, before embracing other stacks.

ArchReaper 10y ago

I don't know of any reliable tutorials, but if you want to try jumping into a project, you can download Umbraco and follow some basic 'Getting Started' guides. Some of what you will learn is Umbraco-specific, but you'll also see a lot of how .NET likes to do things for web projects. Alternatively, you can just get Visual Studio and use their "ASP.NET Web Application" template and poke through what is generated, if you want something a bit smaller to start with. Links: Umbraco: https://umbraco.com/ https://umbraco.com/ Getting Started Guide: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/ https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/

phhlho 10y ago

If you are already familiar with .NET, you might find some courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy a good starting point. There is a web development category: https://mva.microsoft.com/training-topics/web-development#!index=6&lang=1033 https://mva.microsoft.com/training-topics/web-development#!i... Looking at the courses available, I would probably start with: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-started-with-web-technologies-15937 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-sta... then look into either ASP.NET MVC: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/introduction-to-aspnet-mvc-8322 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/introductio... or ASP.NET Core: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/intermediate-aspnet-core-10-16964?l=Kvl35KmJD_4306218965 https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/intermediat... This is coming from someone that hasn't actually used these, so take my recommendations with a grain of salt.

runjake 10y ago

The training resources available on the ASP.net website are excellent and cover all skill levels. https://www.asp.net https://www.asp.net

po1nter 10y ago

if you want to learn .Net development then you should try pluralsight. it's a great resource for everything .net. I'm on mobile right now but you can get free 3 months subscription. you can also get a free month I think to wintellect.

ukyrgf 10y ago

Your absolute best bet is to sign up for Visual Studio Dev Essentials and try out all the 3 month trials they give. Pluralsight in particular is a really great resource. https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/ https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/

keithnz 10y ago

You need to be specific. Most people doing web on .NET probablly use .NET Asp.NET MVC... I've used it a lot, and it's ok. But there are alternatives. For instance using F# and https://suave.io/ https://suave.io/ Which I think is really nice.

pjmlp 10y ago

Pluralsight is the best training site for MS related technologies, it is how they started, before embracing other stacks.