C# is the lingua franca of .NET so you would be best off studying that first. It's still a simple language, especially if you know C++. I recommend "Pro Visual

C# is the lingua franca of .NET so you would be best off studying that first. It's still a simple language, especially if you know C++. I recommend "Pro Visual C++ 2005 for C# Developers" (it maps C# concepts to C++ but you can go the other way), "The C# Programming Language 4th Edition (with annotations)" and "C# in Depth". Then, of course, just solving problems with the language. Next you want to get the latest edition of "CLR via C#" to get a very in depth look at how the CLR works. Once you're comfortable with C# and the CLR, you can pretty much figure out how the major frameworks must work. For instance, you can understand about 90% of ASP.NET just by learning two classes and two simple interfaces. Some other good online resources are: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet https://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/ https://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ Oh, if you really want to accelerate your C# learning, try writing code without using `if`, `while`, `for`, `switch` and `goto` (obviously).