advice on web development

Question

I'm going to start on server-client side web development using .NET framework. I know about technologies used in this field but please suggest me from where do I take the initiative?

Nilesh Jadav · Answer

You can first start learning the technologies like - basic of c# and asp.net , learn the asp.net controls, how do they work and all, then go to the higher level --> SQL database connection and data control . there are lots of source where you can learn these technologies. - C# corner, codeproject, asp.net suresh are one of them. When you learn these technologies than you can go ahead with MVC,Ajax,Silverlight,WCF,webservices,sharepoint,window phone. use this book to learn c# -- > this book is really nice where you can learn c# as comic book. http://it-ebooks.info/book/2885/

Marie Murakami · Answer

Ok I would agree that first thing that you need to do is learn C# fundamentals. But regarding the specific technologies I would recommend you to skip the classic ASP.NET (aka the Web Forms). You see this approach uses a stateful serve controls, now I want go into details but one thing is for certain and that is that it lost the communities interest. The number of projects that are using this older ASP.NET's technology is rapidly reducing. I would advise you to go with ASP.NET MVC from start, this is a more accepted and preferred approach, but not only that it consumes a MVC pattern which is shared across other frameworks as well. Also I don't believe that knowing ASP.NET Web Forms will help you much with working on ASP.NET MVC. Well while I'm already there, I would also say that you should scratch out the Silverlight and WebServices as well. The reason is pretty much the same, these are relatively obsolete technologies (or will become one in near future) so instead I would say go for ASP.NET Web API. With ASP.NET Web API you can learn about developing SPA (single page applications) websites which intensively work with JS and JS frameworks. All in all I would say that in nowadays the web developers need to know the web's fundamentals more than they needed before, this is especially true with MVC and SPA applications. So beside the C# fundamentals I would recommend you to also learn HTML, CSS and JS fundamentals as well. For example you use these HTML, CSS and JS coding tests for practising . After that you can move to any specific ASP.NET technology, note that the truth is that you'll not have much trouble in learning if you mastered the basic concepts.

Pranjal Niay · Answer

Thank you for your suggestion.