I have been developing a web/web application in PHP for a couple of years. I recently started to learn ASP.NET by myself, but found so so so confusing! This "MS Visual Web Developer" takes me forever to create one simplest form. I can do the same thing 30 times faster and better in PHP. I have no idea who the heck actually needs this thing in web development! Cut&Past programmer? free tune up http://www.pcpitstop.com

Transitioning to ASP.NET from a language like PHP is not easy...They are completely different paradigms. I haven't tried visual web developer, but if it's like visual studio, it takes a while to learn and appreciate. Yes, you can make very simple pages 30 times faster and better in PHP than in ASP.NET. But you can make very large and complex enterprise-level sites 30 times faster and better in ASP.NET than in PHP. In ASP.NET you can leverage true object-oriented design, event driven models, all the power of the .NET framework, optimize performance via output and data caching, databind, write reusable web components, work with load balancing and server clustering, etc. PHP can do almost none of those things. Good luck, -SN

Thanks for the input. Do you know any enterprise-level sites, which is(or should be) developed in ASP.NET? How large the web site should be in order to take a full advantage of using ASP.NET? free tune up http://www.pcpitstop.com

Do you know any enterprise-level sites, which is(or should be) developed in ASP.NET? Check out the Fortune 1000 app server survey. How large the web site should be in order to take a full advantage of using ASP.NET? It's all in the eye of the beholder...PHP starts feeling dirty to me around 10,000 lines of code. Don't get me wrong...I love PHP and I have tremendous respect for it. But ultimately it's not an object-oriented language, and doesn't scale as well as object-oriented languages like C#, VB.NET, or Java. Good luck, -SN