GIS learning resources for a .NET developer

Start with the beginning: google for GIS.

So you get tutorials on how to set up a database with spatial (ie GIS) options which should get you started, once there - forget about C# APIs, just go straight to the APIs for other languages (as there tends to be a lot more work done for OSS stuff than for .NET in this environment) - for example, MapQuery for javascript.

The rest of the task is about learning what GIS does and how it does it. That can be some pretty in-depth maths, especially when talking about routing and implementation of the data.

You might look at the book Beginning ArcGIS for Desktop Development using .NET if you don't mind learning developing with Esri platform. Another good book for basics of GIS - GIS for Web Developers.

SharpMap is an excellent .NET/C# based platform for .NET development for GIS.

• You can use DevExpress components. For example, map control. http://documentation.devexpress.com/#WPF/CustomDocument10682

• Then you can use opensource projects, for example, mapsui http://mapsui.codeplex.com/

• Moreover, you can choose ArcGis (http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgissdks/10.0/net). But it is the most expensive solution.

For learning what is GIS and how to do some basic stuff use QGIS there is very good tutorials in youtube. To learn what prober spatial database does, load data into PostGIS and do some basic stuff like loading data (vector , raster) , spatial search etc.. projection transformations ( and when you are forced to use MS SQL server,curse how it does not have all features)

For C# see [Link][1] and NPGSQL to postgresql connection

It depends what you want to learn, now days openlayers and jquery are popular when we are talking about web mapping. PostGIS for datastorage , Geoserver for WMS tiles , SQL + R for statistic etc etc

[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2184469/know-of-any-c-sharp-spatial-data-libraries