can any one suggest me a site to learn dot net. iam a beginner,i dont know VB or VC. do we require any prior knowledge about any thing to learn dot net? pls some one suggest me a good site.

If you have some programming background, (iterative would be best) then learning the syntax of c# or vb.net should be fairly easy. There are many sites that offer tutorials in vb.net as well as c#, c++.net. go to http://www.google.com and type in "c# tutorial" or "vb .net tutorial" and you will get quite a few hits. In addition there are some good books on .Net: "Applied .Net Framework Programming" from Microsoft Press is a good foundation builder and reference manual. "How to program c#" is a good book too (from Dietel) If you have no understanding of classes, then you might want to start with c++ to get a good foundation. "How to program C++" Dietel goes through baby steps to get you up to speed with c++ and classes. Pretty much everything you learn is applicable to .net (with some modifications) The "How to program c#" by deitel does not step you though the underlying basics of class construction (but that's because c# uses classes for everything, even when it makes no sense and/or when it is used in a weird .net way. For example, every program you create in .net starts with a class that has a "main" function within the class definition, however, that class is not a part of the class (confusing and actually not possible in oop, but somehow possible in .net) and is unable to access any of the private functions of the class. That takes a little getting used to and unfortunately can make beginners never gain an understanding of abstraction in the way it was meant to be implemented. Ok, done rambling. Hope this helps, Chi Happens