Excuse me for the long post, but I need to give a little background. I’m a web designer mainly, but I’ve been doing some development work recently. I’ve done a few simple applications using PHP/MySQL, and I understand those technologies fairly well. I’ve got a client for whom I’ve been doing some design work, and he has recently asked me to do some development work for his company.
The project is essentially an ASP.NET content management system (which the client’s company can use to generate new pages for Real Estate events), and registration form w/ shopping cart to pay for the events. The only requirements are that I have to integrate their current shopping cart with the system, and that I use ASP.NET to create the pages (their site is hosted on a Windows server). I would’ve preferred to use PHP, but it’s not a Linux server.
It’s up to me to use whatever database technology I want, so I would like to use MySQL (I’ve heard and read that it’s not too hard to connect to with ASP.NET, and I know nothing about MS Access). However, I have extremely limited experience with ASP.NET, and I will have to learn a fair amount to do this project. The cool part is that I explained this to the client, and he’s more than willing to pay me to learn.
So far, the project just looks like I’m going to have to spend a fair amount of time researching and learning. There’s only one thing I’m not sure about that the client wants: they want to have data from a user-filled in form dynamically generate a PDF on the spot with all of the form data and some body text filled in. Does anyone have any idea if this is even possible?
Also, seeing as how this is my first real experience with ASP.NET, can anyone offer any suggestions on the best environments/technologies to use to develop this project in, and maybe a good book or tutorial to check out?
–Please don’t hate me for my long post 
I’m sorry
Thanks,
BenLacy2112