Re: Learning .NET

You only need to know what you need to know, until a new bit of knowledge is required.  Microsoft provide MSDN and documentation with the SDK and VS.NET to tell you about all the bits you dont know you need yet.
 
Start with the quickstart, it covers most of the basics of what every developer needs - the rest is specific to what your trying to do.

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Regards
 
John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director
"Shawn Ferguson" <SFergus2@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OESKVM0cFHA.3280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
I'm in the process of learning .NET but I have an issue.  How do you know what CAN exist.  What I mean is how does a person know to use the string.todate or something like that?  There are so many additions and changes from traditional, how do you know what to use for what you need without having a HUGE reference book of all the possibilities?  I guess I'm a little intimidated by the vast amount of information. 

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