I am very new to web development. I have been a C,C++ programmer for 5 years and

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I am very new to web development. I have been a C,C++ programmer for 5 years and I'm starting to get into the web development, writing web services, etc.

I understand that basic concepts of web services. I know .Net web services can be written in VB or C#. Working with C,C++ will help getting used to writing code in C#.

I do not have experience in .Net framework. I'd like to quickly get into writing .Net web services and learning on the go, without extensively spending a lot of time learning .Net framework (if possible)

Any suggestions?

Update - I know my way around databases and sql express in Visual Studio

Explanation / Answer

You will need to understand IIS at least enough to add and remove a website and webservice. Other than that so long as your app pool is running the correct version of .net you should be fine... this is probably the hardest thing to get right.

My recommendation is start small and work your way up incrementally.

Because you do not want to take the time to learn .net or C# you are going to have some pain points. C# is different from C and C++. In some ways it is easier and in others... different.

So Start off with your service 1 tiny step at a time. In this way you can see how your changes are affecting the service at run time and know when you run into a cryptic error(You will eventually no matter how good you are) what change caused the problem.

Using automated tests for your internal methods should help with determining if the problem is in the code or the configuration.

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