I am intermediate level in c# and have been developing some small programs in c# winforms and planning to start learning ASP in 2016 -2017 . because i am freelancer i can start fresh independent of any legacy frameworks.
the question is what should i learn ? after doing research i am still confused about those terms :
- Web API Vs Web sockets
- ASP.NET MVC 5 , ASP.NET Core 1.0 , ASP.NET vNext , ASP.NET MVC 6
- standard Web forms , ASP.NET Web Forms , ASP.NET Web Pages
also from my reading over the internet i could figure out the following:
- i think ASP.NET Core 1.0 = ASP.NET vNext .
- ASP.NET Core 1.0 is the "latest and greatest" currently in final stages of development ,but not sure if it is the same as ASP.NET MVC 6.
- not sure if ASP.NET MVC 5 is older (incompatible with ASP.NET Core 1.0) technology. and there is no consensus if ASP.NET Core 1.0 will replace ASP.NET MVC 5.
the purpose of the question is to be able to choose books /articles to read.