I have written my last classic ASP app. Yes, I'll still modify existing applications, but it is time that I put in the time to fully understand the .NET framework. I've been able to hack around in VS 2008, to the point that I was able to modify an existing application's shipping algorithm to access a LTL Frieght API, but really don't have much experience going start-to-finish with an application. So today I'm downloading some of the sample SQL DBs, and will be dutifully working through the samples, concentrating on understanding the IDE and getting up-to-speed on creating winforms and ASP.NET pages. Silverlight seems interesting as well, but that will wait until I'm a bit happier with my .NET prowess.

Given that I still have other projects, I'll be spending a 30 minutes / day working through code samples, books and other resources. 

Codeplex has some nice samples: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples for self-taught folks such as myself.