Scott Hanselman has posted a good article introducing using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to write web-based applications that will run on Internet Explorer and FireFox if you have the .net Framework 3.5 installed.
This tutorial explains how to get sites like WordPress , PHPBB , and Kayako's eSupport's help desk area to use your website's look-and-feel so that when you change your corporate website template then the help desk area will automatically reflect those changes .
This article provides: A link to MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) where you can see some of the ColdFusion® to .net translations that Microsoft has provided Some of my own suggestions that a ColdFusion developer should know when going to .net