Most of us seem to learn by jumping in and trying to swim.  Well, the first step to using DotNetNuke (DNN) with ASP.NET 4 is to learn about ASP.NET 4.  I have been reading “Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB”  by Wrox publishing and can highly recommend it to those who want to get a heads up before they jump into the deep end of the pool. 

The authors, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, and Devin Rader are well known and respected in the Microsoft Community.  The book is very well organized.  It does assume that the reader has some programming experience but you by no means have to be an expert to follow the logic or the examples.  The material is presented in a very orderly fashion.  If you are a beginner in ASP.NET programming, there is enough information that you are not lost.  If you are an expert, there is not so much detail that drives you crazy.  It is easy to find the new “toys” in ASP.NET and see how they can help you in your day to day activities. 

Now that Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 have been released, I am looking forward to all the changes that will be coming because of all the new functionality that has been made available to us.  I don’t know about you, but I find that there is so much available in today’s technology that I cannot remember it all.  Now that I have finished reading the book, it has home on my bookshelf as a quick reference for the next few years.    

Now... on to "Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010"  :-)