"PHP Style" development with ASP.NET?
<p>I'm learning ASP.NET (slowly), trying to avoid WebForms entirely, but I'm finding MVC, ORMs, EF, and all the rest a little bit overwhelming. I am quite solid with HTML, HTTP, CSS, C# and the BCL.</p>

<p>I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP (ewww), but I've found it to have the deployment and convenience advantages for super small tasks. </p>

<p>I'd like to get a "quick start" where I can just one file in which I can manually connect to the database, run some sql and then loop over the result it to produce some HTML. Small amounts of Visual Studio magic are acceptable. ;)</p>

<p>Is there some sort of microframework or "basic project template" I've been missing?</p>

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<p>This is similar to <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5776339/php-style-web-development-on-ruby-creating-microframework-for-that">this question about doing the same thing with ruby</a>.</p>
