>>>>>hi all,
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>>>>>just looking for thoughts on moving from asp to asp.net, I know well behind the times. Anyway I've a need to move a customer from an old asp web app that interfaces with VFP back end to a .net (or some other windows based web interface) web front end that still links to the vfp back end. It's a simple setup, login and about 20 pages. but only 5 pass or add data to the backend
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>>>>>~M
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>>>>You'd best hit up some Pluralsight training for ASP.NET MVC videos before you choose for sure. There's a lot of platforms out there. If you're staying with the MS web stack you should be doing ASP.NET MVC. Otherwise check out Ruby, Python, or Scala.
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>>>I feel like the only person here who intrudes on the Pluralsight hegemony. Nothing against them but it should be mentioned that TekPub has ASP.NET MVC content presented by Rob Conery, who was on the dev team at Microsoft.
>>>
>>>Here's hoping all is well with you and your family.
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>>IMHO the MS dev team staff is the worst as far as giving tutorials or trainings. Recently I wanted to watch the intro/tutorial on EF. The guys who were doing the talk (I forgot the site but I picked it up here from one of the gurus on ASP.NET). Anyway, these two gurus/geeks started the talk on listing all the new features in the latest update. Completely confusing to the newbie. I turned them off after only 5 min of listening. It was very disappointing. Now if I see anywhere that the training or presentation is given by MS dev team person, to me this is a signal to skip them.
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>I will take your word for it about other MS presenters but Rob is terrific.

Don't take my other post as Rob bashing. He is terrific but the "MS misfit" image he tries so hard to portray gets annoying and transparent.

Check out his This Developer's Life podcasts if you haven't. I suspect you might like them.