Microsoft web architectures of the day: Web Forms vs MVC vs Web API

I was tasked today with finding out what is the best pick to convert our desktop application into a fully web based one.

Came across the 2 following links, which I found very good, where I think most of the essential topics are covered.

• Microsoft doc's Modern Web Apps architecture
• Leonardo Esposito's reflections on Web Forms vs MVC vs Web Api

Visual Studio Web Development Extensions

http://webtooling.visualstudio.com/extensions/web-development

Going up one level, you get into http://webtooling.visualstudio.com, that overviews what visual studio offers in covering the technologies being used today.

P.S.: PowerTools has historically given me freezing problems, making it not an option.

P.S. II: The power tools issue mentioned above is gone after moving to Windows 10 (recommend, by the way, seems to give benefits on many other fronts, like Xamarin development, for example).

Web Development Fundamental Concepts

I found today concise yet very good descriptions of fundamental concepts in web development, by the Mozilla Developer Network.
A must for any web developer (I stumbled across this way too late, I admit).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/Common_questions

You will find great articles clarifying what is the internet, a web server, web pages, web sites and more.

Update:
Web Fundamentals from Google.