I have always been reluctant to Asp.net because of its lack of  a good architecture compared to J2EE. But with Asp.net MVC, we have got the framework with a good RAD behind. Asp.net MVC is one of the best practices from Microsoft. You can start enjoying Asp.net MVC from this web site 

Before learning C#, I was working with C/C++ language for control engineering after this job I moved to Java programming and one of my friends in 2004 lent me a book for C# language, since then I am a fan of this language because when you learn c# language you are learning three programming languages (C/C++, Java and C#). It is really amazing to see how they are  so similar.