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Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

asp.NET, C#, and MVC

So my job requires that I use Visual Studios to make use of asp.NET to build my websites. Up until now its been wrapping my HTML in asp pages. Its been a horrid practice from the get-go but they had me hard coding countless training manuals to which I had protested saying content should be in the database and called when needed so it would be easier to update later. Now that all of the manuals are changing they are seeing the folly in hard coding the content.

They want to to now use asp to build a CMS where instructors can upload content and edit content as it changes (much like a blog post wysiwyg with the ability to add categories and sub-categories.) I can't be open source nor PHP so Joomla, wordpress etc is out of the question it has to be built. This is also way out of my skill set.

I would kill for a course on treehouse that taught asp.NET and MVC.

6 Answers

Zachary Baltrip
Zachary Baltrip
4,581 Points
Zachary Baltrip
Zachary Baltrip
4,581 Points

Agreed. My new co-op has me working with MVC in VS and I know next to nothing of C#. Thus everyday I got in, it's a constant struggle working on the projects that have been assigned. I used Treehouse to get me ahead and it taught me HTML/CSS from the ground up.

I desperately long for Treehouse to create some C# tutorials. Some asp.NET tutorials would be immensely helpful.

John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

I've been here a year and in that year I have hard-coded over 1000 pages of course material. telling them the whole time this was bad practice. NOW they want to listen to me. but YAY for the DOD (sarcasm) they are so far out on the Microsoft bandwagon I can't use any sort of opensource and it all has to my asp.NET

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

i dont see treehouse implementing any tutorials for asp.net. I have no experience with it, but if its as bad as you say it is, do you think treehouse would want to make tutorials for such an unpopular framework/language? But who knows if enough people request it they might.

Paul Hume
Paul Hume
6,143 Points
Paul Hume
Paul Hume
6,143 Points

Treehouse may not be the source for your questions. Forgive me for mentioning other sites, but look up pragim technologies or subscribe to it on YouTube. I don't think you will be disappointed. The lecturer is very good and can help you from the ground up in this area. And did i mention that the lectures are free!!!

Zachary Baltrip
Zachary Baltrip
4,581 Points
Zachary Baltrip
Zachary Baltrip
4,581 Points

Thank you! I'm watching some now.

Irfan Ullah
Irfan Ullah
6,869 Points
Irfan Ullah
Irfan Ullah
6,869 Points

Check Pluralsight training for C# and ASP.net MVC

justinw
justinw
14,517 Points
justinw
justinw
14,517 Points

My developers use ASP.Net, C# and MVC only. It's rough waters and fortunately DreamSpark by Microsoft offers Visual Studio for free so I've been able to implement my skills that I've acquired from Treehouse into VisualStudio, but I agree it's horrid, difficult and not intuitive by any means. I guess I'm not wired that way, but I'm getting there.