ASP.Net like PHP echo

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I have some serious problem to understand <br /><div>&lt;% %&gt;</div><div>&lt;%: %&gt;</div><div>&lt;%#EVAL #&gt;</div><div>and all others tags like these.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>My question is like how do we simply print a db value like we print in php echo $var;</div><div>Please suggest me a basic asp.net book so i can really understand what is asp.net web development. I find it very very complex as campared to PHP or even java</div>