Ask HN: Learning .Net as an experienced Java dev

6 pointsreitanqild1 comment

Hi!

I'm looking to pick up as much .Net as possible, specifically in the areas of Asp.Net, Entity Framework, NHibernate and a few others before I start with a client that is a MS only shop when I get back to work in January. (Yes, they are aware that I am a Java guy.)

So far I have figured out C# is a better Java. IIS is the app server. NuGet is ~a Maven lite. Visual Studio is the IDE, etc.

Problem is there are seemingly thousands of small things to figure out that I haven't come around to yet, like: is there a common directory layout for projects (solutions)?

How does it decide which templates to use around my page specific html? Something like Tiles maybe?

Anyone has some good pointers?

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/SolutionName SolutionName.sln <-- "Solution file" contains links to projects /Project1Name Project1Name.csproj <-- "Project file" contains all project references and files /NamespacePart SomeClass.cs <-- Default namespace/package is "SolutionName.Project1Name.NamespacePart"