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Hi I have recently started to learn C#/ASP.NET WebForms and after reading two books I thought I was ready to create my first web application. Problem is I could not have been more wrong. Although I am not quite a beginner as a programmer and have done some programming in Java (a Monopoly game), JavaScript (using jQuery), and PHP (create templates for WordPress), I never really created something that is database driven, and I can't seem to figure where to start.

I am very confident in my HTML/CSS/jQuery skills, so that is not the problem.

My end goal after becoming comfortable in ASP.NET WebForms is to learn MVC, ADO.NET, and the Entity Framework, and start a career as a .NET developer.

I would like if someone could tell me some tutorials that build ASP.NET WebForms applications, such as a blog, so I can see what are the steps in creating an ASP.NET WebForms database driven application.

I already have two projects in mind for ASP.NET. One is building a blog and the other building a job board.

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If I were you, I would jump straight to MVC. – Bernard Oct 5 '12 at 14:30
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I already read about web forms and most of the companies where I leave require you to know both – user1525474 Oct 5 '12 at 14:31
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The obvious place to look would be the tutorials and videos at asp.net/web-forms – Dan Diplo Oct 5 '12 at 15:12

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I have recently started to learn C#/ASP.NET WebForms and after reading two books I thought I was ready to create my first web application.

Did you do the Tutorials at the end of each chapter in the Books?! That is where you need to start.

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I did them all and I think I understand each one of them but when I started to build my own application I felt like everything was blank in my head and could not remember anything – user1525474 Oct 5 '12 at 14:40
That's a common feeling. This is where you start to break the problem down into little bits you can research and implement. For example. You start writing your web site, what was the specific thing you got stuck at? – Ian Oct 5 '12 at 14:45
geting the data from the database.The book presented 3 different form and controllers but using does controllers could limit me because they are presented in a table format(gridview) – user1525474 Oct 5 '12 at 14:48
Grids are one way to present the data. Look into various Object Relational Model tools usually called ORMs which may give you an idea that this isn't always a simple problem. – JB King Oct 5 '12 at 17:20
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Scott Gu's blog would be a suggestion for a resource about learning ASP.Net stuff. Something to keep in mind is that there are various versions of .Net, ASP.Net, and Visual Studio so do factor this in when looking at a tutorial that there may be changes from one configuration to another,e.g. differences between a website and a web application in Visual Studio.

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I would like to suggest you a book by author Kalata Kathleen. http://www.amazon.com/Kathleen-Kalata/e/B001JRXZLY I had zero ASP.NET experience and that book was rather very interesting to kick in. Lots of labs for you to start using the libraries and objects. Hope this helps.

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If you want to learn .NET in a good manner , you got to know the .NET Framework Application Developement Foundation which is the 70-536 exam in MCTS exams , I truely suggest you to begin developing in .NET framework buy studying that book and after you have studied that book best books I consider are MCTS exam books like 70-562 and so on . Although studying these books needs a background knowledge of .NET and C# or VB but after reaeding too many books I found them really good and with excelent expainations . . . after all you are the one who chooses what to read .

Good Luck

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