What is .NET and What is that for?

Microsoft's .NET Framework was a direct response to the recognition of the Java platform. It first came in 2002 and it had been meant for object-oriented programming. Today the .NET development platform consists of .NET Framework, however additionally multiple different products designed throughout nearly twenty years of development since its first unharness. Among them, you will notice .NET Core, and Xamarin. all of them give their own libraries and serve a distinct purpose. While .NET Framework is that the most matured of them, .NET Core is appropriate for a broader vary of platforms, and Xamarin works for mobiles. you will additionally notice Microsoft-supported libraries for API connections and heaps of additional.

.NET platform is easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions. That is the huge advantage of .NET. It is also a very mature platform with great support from both Microsoft and the developers' community. You only need visual studio IDE for all kind of applications. That is another huge advantage of .NET.

.NET is brilliantly suitable for apps with a wide range of features. Namely, desktop software, web-based services, game development, artificial reality development, and cloud infrastructure.

.NET framework supports over 60 programming languages. As well as you can use more than one language for one program at the same time. 11 of those languages were developed by Microsoft. Most supported languages are,

        • C#

        • F#

        • C++

        • IronPython

        • Visual Basic .NET

        • PowerShell


What technical skills .NET engineers need?

        • Visual Studio – IDE from Microsoft and most popular IDE for .net framework.

        • ASP.NET - this framework makes it easier to reuse your code in multiple places creating it                     clearer. It offers you the power to set apart your application's code from its presentation layer.                 The framework supports several programming models too. for instance, the ASP.NET MVC                     permitting making web apps in keeping with MVC architecture pattern, or ASP.NET web                     API simplifying the creation of protocol services building restful apps.

        • ASP.NET Core - this is the redesign of ASP.NET 4.x, built not only for Windows but for                         macOS and Linux as well. It gives you better performance too.

        • Entity Framework - it is an open-source object-relational mapping framework supported by                     Microsoft.

        • Entity Framework Core - this lightweight, extensible, open-source, and cross-platform                             version of EF works with ASP.NET Core too.

        • Roslyn — it is a .NET compiler platform. In addition to that, it exposes sets of APIs enabling                 broader interaction with code.

        • Xamarin — a platform of .NET developer tools and libraries. Handy especially when you                         work on mobile apps. With Xamarin it is easier to build native applications with .NET.

        • MVC — Model-View-Controller is a software design pattern. It describes interactions                             between the three components of a web application and its GUI.

        • Databases — understanding of databases and knowledge of SQL is important for both back                     end and front-end developers.

        • Version control — it is a key idea for high-quality software development. Moreover, it                             improves the processes of development and testing.