Newbie to .NETdevelopment - where to start?

[harry]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to start .NET

The situation is this, I am a experienced J2EE developer who wants to
familiarize himself at a development level (& of course improve my CV
content). I have used Visual Basic 6 & Visual C++ for many years but not for
the last 4!

I want to convert some of my J2EE app's to .NET but need obviously to do
some good groundwork first in order to see how it's done in the .NET world -
where do I start?

Any good books, web sites, newsgroups (apologies if posted to the wrong
ones!) etc... anyone could recommend would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

harry

 

[Boas Enkler]

At the beginning this Site helped me very much:
samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/

 

[Larry Lard]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to start .NET

The situation is this, I am a experienced J2EE developer who wants to
familiarize himself at a development level (& of course improve my CV
content). I have used Visual Basic 6 & Visual C++ for many years but not for
the last 4!

I want to convert some of my J2EE app's to .NET but need obviously to do
some good groundwork first in order to see how it's done in the .NET world -
where do I start?

As an experienced J2EE developer, you will already be familiar with the
*concepts* involved in .NET programming. A lot of the Framework will be
*very* familiar to you (the System namespace, mostly). I would
recommend you get the Richter C#/CLR book (make sure you get the
edition for .NET 2.0) and just work your way through that. It's big,
but it's all very useful.