ASP.NET help

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Hi,

I'm looking at creating my first project in ASP.NET.

What I'm trying to do is allow the user to a enter a search term into an input box, and return a list of matching results from a database, in the form of an unordered list.

I'm completely new to ASP.NET - I have my page knocked up in HTML/CSS, but have no idea how to implement the above.

Can somebody ponit me in the right direction, or to a site that may help?

Cheers,
 
I've done a little bit of VB.NET during my time a college a few years ago, but these days I hear C# is the way to go?

I pick up things pretty quickly so that's why I'm looking for some tutorial/examples from you guys which help me learn and do what I want :)
 
Ok good, that's a start. Personally I'm a C# man, but VB.NET is perfectly acceptable.

I would start by learning the language (VB or C#), data access techniques and suchlike (I'd guess you'regoing to need to be accessing a database for this query, so a little SQL might help too?). I was a windows developer before I became a web developer, so I already had those sussed before I picked up ASP.NET. I actually taught myself ASP.NET initially by reading Pro ASP.NET (Apress) and spending time on w3schools. You can also check out the ASP.NET site @ www.ASP.net for videos etc. ASP.NET is a great framework to start off in, and the basics are pretty simple.

However with this simplicity comes a price - the markup sometimes ain't pretty. if you are more comfortable with something closer to the metal, check out ASP.NET MVC.
 
ASP.NET abstracts HTML controls in to its own set of control tags.

If MVC was about when I started i would have started with that, as it is less confusing because of the lack of abstraction of controls - at least to me.

Try ASP.NET MVC some good tutorials here http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials
 
Cheers guys, I've had a look at the tutorials.

Quick question, if I'm learning from scratch, is it best for me to dive in with MVC or learn WebForms first?

Thanks,
 
Would defo learn webforms first. Takes a while to get used to life cycle / stateless environment etc!
 
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