Thank for chiming in @jbigelow
I am on Pluralsight and that is a great resource indeed.
However, since I do not have any VB programming experience should I start learning VB first and then get into ASP.NET ?
No. Learn C#. There is much wider adoption of C#, and in the early days of .NET C# skills actually commanded a higher salary (it has the letter C, it must be good).
C# gets a lot more love from MS than VB does.