From PHP to ASP.NET

Yes on the asp.net site use the drop-down tab that says learn there are many articles and videos at your disposal. I have one site in asp.net and I don't use the MVC I use the razor web pages with c#. I just wrote my own custom classes.

Is there a path for complete newbie? "Getting started with ASP.NET MVC 4" or "Getting started with ASP.NET MVC 5" means nothing to me, as I don't even know what ASP.NET MVC ultimately is. When clicking on the "Introduction to ASP.NET MVC" I get a too-many-redirects error.

@jlrdw so, where do I start? I feel there's so much to learn, and I don't want to start off the wrong way.

Does this help http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction/getting-started

I currently have Visual Studio Express 2015 installed, it comes with a built-in web server for testing. I also downloaded and installed SQL Server 2014 Express and the query browser that you can use with that. It's all free. I am looking for something else will be back. Found it http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/older-versions/getting-started-with-aspnet-mvc4/intro-to-aspnet-mvc-4 And see the download page also.

@toniperic for fun compare these 3 queries:

Older sql server paging query

public string paging(string TableOrViewName, string Columns, string OrderColumn, string OrderDirection, double PageSize, Int32 SelectedPage, string WhereClause)
    {
  return "SELECT " + Columns + " FROM ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY " + OrderColumn + " ) AS ROW_NUMBER, " + Columns + " FROM " + TableOrViewName + " WHERE " + WhereClause + " ) AS tmp WHERE ROW_NUMBER BETWEEN " + ((SelectedPage - 1) * PageSize + 1).ToString() + "AND " + (SelectedPage * PageSize).ToString() + " ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER";
     }

LINQ

var owners = (cb.powners
                    .Where(p => p.petowner.StartsWith(ps))
                    .OrderBy(p => p.petowner).Skip(Convert.ToInt32(varoffset)).Take(5)
                    .Select(p => new { p.ownerid, p.petowner, p.ostreet }));

The newer Sql server 2014

var msql = "SELECT * FROM pets WHERE petname LIKE @0 ORDER BY petname OFFSET " + thisoffset + " ROWS FETCH NEXT 5 ROWS ONLY";

At one time long pagination queries had to be written since sql server had no LIMIT clause, but now
there's the OFFSET and FETCH clause.
The LINQ query at runtime is like the long query, LINQ language is a short cut language.
All three are doing the same thing basically. Just thought this was some neat info to share.

Great stuff. Im starting an 6 month ASP.net job soon as well. Never did anything with it or know what it is.