Beginning Programming in asp.net

I want to start programming in asp.net.

I have a basic understanding of PHP.

I have an interface in Visual Studio.net 2005 but it programs in xml.

I was wondering if there was any other way to program in an aspx file.

I would like to know the terminology and maybe some shortcuts.

the page itself is html. Not xml. To add code to it Press F7. That will take you the the file.aspx.cs file where all the code will be sitting. As .net has code separation and its good practise to do it like that. If you want to code inline ala PHP style. Then you need to do it inside <% %> tags. But that is not advised