Advice for new comers into the .NET world for web developers

I am wondering what would be a good ramp up plan that you can recommend 开发者_如何学Ca typical ASP.NET web developer who is a totally new to .NET world. There are way too many things to learn, and too little time to train.

C#

ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC

JQuery

AJAX

Silverlight

RIA

WCF

... list goes on ...

The first piece of advice I would give you would be to understand how the technologies you listed can, but certainly don't have to, relate. You are talking about server-side, client-side, browser plugins, etc.

What you need is a project. Don't feel you have to throw the kitchen sick at a problem just because you can. Get yourself a project and learn as you go.

I strongly recommend looking at the certification exams and, if not actually doing the exams, then reading the Microsoft Press Self-Paced Training Kit.

Here is the WCF book (Exam 70-503): http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Book.aspx?ID=12486&locale=en-us

If you are really committed, have a go at getting the MCPD Enterprise Application Developer certification, although it might take a few months of part time effort.

In order of first to last:

1. C# (and the .NET framework)
2. ASP.NET
3. ASP.NET Web Services
4. JQuery
5. AJAX
6. ASP.NET MVC

Reasons: Well you need to know C# or VB.NET to start using ASP.NET. Then to develop web apps in .NET you need ASP.NET, and most enterprise applications use WebServices to enforce layered application design patterns. After that jQuery is useful, and then when you know jQuery you can choose between jQuery to AJAXify your pages, or ASP.NET AJAX. Up to you... After that I would look at ASP.NET MVC to pull things together (And rewrite your original project ;-)).

I have left off Silverlight, RIA and WCF because they are not 'essential' in my opinion for entry level leaning, unless you specifically need them. Web Services are more than sufficient for most applications where WCF could be used. RIA's are nice, but they 'come along' with your knowledge of AJAX and ASP.NET. Silverlight is very nice... But again IMO not essential learning for a beginner.

This would be where I started... http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-C-2005-with-NET-3-0.productCd-0470124725.html Though there is a newer one now. It walks you though the CLR, then the C# language, and then you can choose to read the WinForms, WPF, or ASP.NET chapters followed by WCF/WebServices etc...

I would recommend this...

1. C#
2. Entity Framework (or NHibernate, depending on taste)
3. ASP.Net MVC
4. HTML
5. Javascript/Jquery

This is all you need to build a small to medium size web application. Don't worry about web services, RIA, Silverlight, WCF, etc. until you are comfortable with the basics.