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copied!<p>All of the frameworks mentioned are useful in their own way but I suggest you start with simple winforms and console apps - Then class libraries.</p> <p>Once you've started to get the fundamentals of the framework, WCF and MVC are the next step.</p> <p>WPF and silverlight are radically different in implementation (You need to understan XAML). MVC will teach you some of the WPF/Silverlight/XAML principles (separation of code and UI) but before you can do XAML, you really need a firm grip on what's going on under the hood.</p> <p>I' also suggest that far more important than any of the frameworks mentioned already is database access - look into Linq (specifically LINQ To Entities). Almost all large applications require data access at some point or other - and getting that right can be far more important than other less-common aspects of the framework.</p> <p>Personally, I taught myself in roughly the following order:</p> <ul> <li>Console Apps (Hello world!)</li> <li>Winforms/controls</li> <li>class libraries</li> <li>The ins and outs of visual studio (signing assemblies, compile actions, build actions)</li> <li>method scopes (Private/public)</li> <li>multi-threading / sync locking / etc.</li> <li>proper use of OO techniques</li> <li>(interfaces/inheritance/polymorphism)</li> <li>All the useful bits of the framework you use every day (file IO/date+time/) then I started on ASP.Net (you can probably skip this as MVC is better and asp.net has some real quirks)</li> <li>WWF (Workflows)</li> <li>WCF (Communications)</li> <li>Silverlight (WPF Lite)</li> <li>WPF Dependency</li> <li>injection/patterns</li> </ul> <p>Obviously, I'm picking some of the highlights and there are many many more bits to fill in the cracks - But it was approximately this order that allowed me to get my head around it.</p> <p>You've got a lot of ground to cover but the .Net framework is very well designed an once you get your head out of the COM/VB6 space you'll begin to love it</p> <p>The best advice I can give you is pick a project (one of your own or something open source) and tinker.</p>

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