How/Where to learn laying out Webforms in ASP.NET 2.0+ versus Winforms (VB.NET)?
<p>Looking for some direction here as I'm running into some migration problems.</p>

<p>We have a legacy application.  The 'infrastructure' is running just fine.  Business logic and data access layers written in VB calling SQL Server for the database.</p>

<p>I have a LOT of experience writing Winforms (desktop) application and have had no problems.  However, the last time I wrote any ASP.NET stuff was in 1.1 (VS.NET 2003).</p>

<p>Among other things, for ASP.NET 2.0 and up, the Grid layout is gone.  It's not just a simple case of dropping controls on a form, aligning them, ordering them and working with the code-behind anymore.</p>

<p>The new web-based application is starting out pretty simple.  Just a common header (already made a user control for that) and footer with your typical CRUD functions in the middle.  </p>

<p>I tried being 'intuative' in using a master page with content place holders but I couldn't get the placeholders to "grow", to say nothing of not being able to put a text box where I wanted one.  Oh, I found the option in VS2008 to allow absolute positioning but it only worked for SOME controls - others I had to manually edit the asp tags.</p>

<p>Then I saw examples using div's and tried to implement them but I ended up with results that had objects writing on top of each other.  The online help wasn't helpful to say the least.</p>

<p>Does anyone know of a good book, website or tutorial that can give the basics of what I'm looking for?  In practice, I'm looking to make simple pages where some objects may have to push others gurther down the y-axis (as in, several comments being made and that section would push the section listing the 'attachments' down further).  I have no trouble when it comes to all the other aspects of this application.  It just appears that my webforms skills are about 3-4 years out of date.</p>

<p>This isn't going to be some fancy flash/silverlight application - just simple 'data maintenance' to get rid of some ugly and bug-prone processes involving reading common mailboxes and decoding Word files.  The new goal is to have a nice weborm with proper validation.</p>

<p>I guess what I'm looking for is a "Webforms for Winforms programmers" book or site.</p>

<p>Help!</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
