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copied!<p>I had the same question when I moved from Classic ASP to .NET 2.0... .NET is huge: so where should I start?</p> <p>What i did was put my hand dirty and started slow, take a project (in my case was a <strong>very important project</strong> - a finance web app that would cover and automatize all 4 persons work) and start to implement, every time I didn't know how to accomplish something or I had an idea in ASP but not in ASP.NET I would go to <strong><a href="http://www.asp.net/learn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.asp.net</a></strong> or <strong><a href="http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">4GuysFromRolla</a></strong> website and search for examples, copy/paste, understand what I was doing and ... continue to the next wall.</p> <p><strong>Took me 6 month</strong> to have everything up and running but was worst it! now that passed almost 3 years I know I did the right choice but back then ... I was scared!</p> <p>now... you refer .NET 3.5, it has a bunch of new things like extensions, linq, etc... I would go by the simple part and when the times comes, "maybe I can use LINQ here, let me search how to use it on this part"</p> <p>hope you follow your own path and <strong>buy some reference book</strong> so you can read something new and have a reference whenever you need "ahhh, I read this somewhere in the book, let me search... where was it?" </p> <p>I bought <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0764576100" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Professional ASP.NET from Wrox</a> as a reference book, and even today I go there to see new things, even when I'm started to use .NET 3.5, the idea is there, there is only a new way to accomplishing it.</p>

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