ASP.NET 3.5?

No, no, n/a

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Okay, Drupal is a finished application written in PHP not an interpreter or compiler like the CLR so you can't switch languages and write it in something else. But what you can do to make the transistion to learning PHP easier is run Drupal on IIS using the Phalanger PHP compiler made for .NET. This way you can do your coding in VS. You can also use the Drupal Web services module to make it a frontend to your .NET applications. which I personally think is really cool!

Drupal uses MySQL but you can run this on Windows and use VS /odbc to develop using MySQL. Many if not all good Windows web host companies support MySQL nowadays. There is always someone that is secretly using MS SQL Server or trying to at least. You might try and find a group for this at groups.drupal.org

If all this is too much hoop jumping then you might want to go for Rainbow CMS which is an excellent C# ASP.NET application.

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