EF Core — EF 6 will be replaced by Entity Framework Core. ASP.NET Core — ASP.NET is

replaced by ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core MVC — ASP.NET Core MVC unified
ASP.NET MVC and Web API.

Top 5 trends of .NET in

2019 that every Developer
should know
FlexBase

Sep 3, 2019·4 min read

It is an exciting time to be a .NET developer as the future

of .NET is set to change. Even if you are not a .NET developer, it
is hard to miss Microsoft’s announcement of the all-new .NET 5.
Pegged to be the future of .NET, the new framework is set to
provide a unified platform for creating applications that are
capable of running on platforms such as Linux and Windows,
along with devices such as IoT and mobile. Updates such as
these are set to affect your present enterprise application.

Let us look at the top four future trends in .NET that every
developer should know.

Trend 1: The Rising Popularity of .NET Core

The recent updates by Microsoft have made .NET Core one of
the hottest frameworks in the market. The .NET Core
framework includes AOT, GC, Runtime, JIT, Base Class Library,
ASP.NET, C#, ML.NET, VB.NET, F#, Entity Framework,
WinForms, WPF, and Xamarin.

The upcoming .NET Core 3.0, which is set to release on

September 2019 will include WinForms, WPF, and Entity
Framework 6.

This will make it easier for developers to port desktop

applications to .NET Core. .NET Core 3.0 will, however, not port
further features from the .NET Framework.

Trend 2 — The Famous Five — .NET 5

All eyes are set on .NET 5 — the future of .NET. Microsoft is
sunsetting ASP.NET web forms in .NET 5 and is currently
recommending developers to migrate to Blazor or other
alternatives such as Angular, React, and Vue SPA frameworks.

Windows Communication Foundation also didn’t make the cut,

with the Redmond-based software provider suggesting
developers use the gRPC framework.

Other technology stacks that have hopped on the .NET 5

bandwagon include Winforms, WPF, and UWP. All these
technologies are being introduced to support desktop
applications that work only on Windows.

A snapshot of what is new in .NET 5

● EF Core — EF 6 will be replaced by Entity Framework Core.

● ASP.NET Core — ASP.NET is replaced by ASP.NET Core.

● ASP.NET Core MVC — ASP.NET Core MVC unified ASP.NET

MVC and Web API.

● MSIX — MSI package installer is being replaced by the new

packaging tool for a desktop application.

● JsonDocument — json.net is being replaced by Json

Document library from the System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.
Trend 3 — Azure Application Development
with .NET
One of the major functionalities of .NET5 will be the
development of Azure applications. More and more developers
will continue to create software targeting Azure as they realize
the amazing services provided by Microsoft Azure cloud
development.

Azure comprises a blend of tools and frameworks such as

docker containers, ASP.NET, serverless computing,
microservices, data models and Azure databases, DevOps, Web
API, and more.

Trend 4 — Blazor
Blazor, which began as an experimental project, is one of the
hottest projects in the .NET community and has officially been
launched by Microsoft.

It provides developers with a JavaScript alternative for web

projects. A feature of ASP.NET, Blazor allows developers to
create interactive Web UIs with C# instead of JavaScript. Since
C# is used to write client and server code, it makes it easier for
developers to share libraries and codes.

Blazor leverages WebAssembly to run client-side C# code

directly in the browser or run it server-side. Exciting times on
the open web lie ahead for developers as great work is
happening in this area. It will be interesting to see how
frameworks such as Razor Components/Blazor will or will not
change the way developers write for the web.

Trend 5 — ML.NET 1.2

Just months after launching V1.0 of ML.NET, Microsoft has yet
again updated its framework to add new features and
functionality for developers.

The enhancements will help users to infuse machine learning

functionalities into their applications with ease with the
ML.NET 1.2. The upgrade now provides developers the ML.

Timeseries package for accurate forecasting and detecting an

anomaly. It will also allow its users to use TensorFlow and
ONNX models for deeper learning scenarios such as image
classification, object detection, etc.

Among other major upgrade is the update of ML.NET CLI to

0.14 (preview) and availability of Microsoft.Extensions.ML
integration package (preview) that allows easy integration with
ML.NET models in web or serverless apps!

What the Future Holds

The future of .NET appears to be promising and exciting at the
same time. The new .NET framework comprises all the
necessary libraries, tools, and frameworks that are expected to
ease the lives of developers.
For instance, learning JavaScript for SPA frameworks won’t be
required since Blazor will be there to handle it. Similarly,
developers won’t have to learn Python for machine learning
because of the new ML.NET, Android or Swift because Xamarin
is there to support it.

All you need to know is C# because it can be used to create

applications that can run anywhere from IoT to Cloud.
However, as .NET 5 comes into the picture, a lot of enterprise
customers will be impacted if they have the product/framework
based on WCF and WebForms.

So, if you are one of them, it is time to consider migrating

to .NET Core because that is where the immediate future lies!

That tool is called Dot NET. Dot NET is valuable and effective tools for programmers and
developers to build dynamic, robust and feature-rich websites, web applications and mobile
applications. This will be a particularly helpful solution for businesses that are seeking to
start their websites with Dot NET. Dot NET will surely help you develop powerful apps,
complex websites and deliver as per their business needs.

It’s news everywhere that Microsoft has been working to improvise .NET and making big
changes to it this year 2020. In the last May, the company announced that it would be
merging all of its .NET products like .NET Core and .NET Framework, into a single .NET.

Mostly .NET Framework is to build web, Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server, and
Microsoft Azure applications. Whereas, Dot NET Core framework is to build cross-platform
device, cloud and IoT applications.

Recently, the company announced the last release the last version .NET Core 3.1 which will
be separated from .NET products.

There will be a single .NET installation for .NET 5. Microsoft is planning to officially release
.NET 5 in November 2020, with a preview coming out in the first half of 2020.

So now, let us discuss the major .NET Trends that will dominate in 2020 and will be
beneficial for the developers and the industry.
1. The Popularity of .NET Core

The recent released by Microsoft, .NET Core has become one of the hottest frameworks in
the market. The .NET Core framework includes AOT, GC, Runtime, JIT, Base Class Library,
ASP.NET, C#, ML.NET, VB.NET, F#, Entity Framework, WinForms, WPF, and Xamarin.

.NET Core 3.1 is smaller and faster, which makes it ideal for cloud installations where
density and speed are important.

It has the ability to fast JSON reading and writing and supports HTTP/2. This will surely
make it much easier for developers to port desktop applications to .NET Core.
However, .NET Core 3.1 is not considered as the features of the .NET Framework.

2. The Fabulous .NET 5

The future of .NET is now ready to rise with the famous and fabulous .NET 5. It’s one of the
best frameworks that allow developers to migrate to Blazor or other alternatives such as
Angular, React, and Vue SPA frameworks.

Other technology stacks have adopted .NET 5 bandwagon including Winforms, WPF, and
UWP. All these technologies support desktop applications that work only on Windows.

Let’s see what .NET 5 has to offer:

 EF Core: Entity Framework Core will replace EF 6.

 ASP.NET Core: ASP.NET Core replaces ASP.NET.
 ASP.NET Core MVC: ASP.NET Core MVC unified ASP.NET MVC and Web API.
 MSIX: A new packing tool for desktop application replaces MSI package installer.

 JsonDocument: Json Document library from the System.Text.Json.JsonDocument

replaces json.net.

3. Cloud Service

Cloud service has been booming in the market because it provides a huge storage capacity. A
large amount of data can be stored and accessed from anywhere around the world and that
too, anytime! With an increasing trend of business, Microsoft has also developed a cloud
storage application named Azure that provides big data and a complete analytics solution.
With the help of Azure, now the organizations which are using the ASP.NET application can
deploy on the cloud using ASP .NET MVC front-end.

4. Blazor Framework

Blazor is free, open-source, and one of the hottest frameworks to build amazing web apps
using an assortment of C#, Razor, and HTML. It allows developers to create interactive User-
Interfaces using C#. It makes an easier way for developers to share libraries and codes as C#
is used to write client and server code. It doesn’t require any additional plugins or add-ons to
run.
With the help of WebAssembly, Blazor runs directly in the browser with client-side C# code
or run it server-side. This makes more interesting to see how developers will write for the
web now.

Features of Blazor:

 Routing
 Layouts
 Forms and validation
 Dependency injection
 JavaScript interop
 Server-side rendering

5. ML.NET 1.4

This new update from Microsoft - ML.NET 1.4 will allow you to innovate your .NET
applications with exciting new machine learning features.

ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework which consists

of Model Builder and CLI (Command-Line Interface) to make it easy to build custom
Machine Learning (ML) models using Automated Machine Learning (AutoML).

With the help of ML.NET, developers can integrate it with their existing tools to develop and
infuse custom ML into their applications by creating custom machine learning models for
common scenarios like Sentiment Analysis, Price Prediction, Sales Forecast prediction,
Customer segmentation, Image Classification and more!

This ML.NET 1.4 enables image classification based on DNN (Deep Neural Network)
retraining with GPU support (GA release).

Here are models with GPU support

 ML.NET
 TensorFlow
 NVIDIA-CUDA

6. Absolutely Secure Platform

Whenever you are planning to develop any software application, you must have to look for its
security features. Using .NET, you should be less worried about security as it provides
features such as validations, code checks, encryptions and code access security.
It has an MVC architecture that leans towards SoC and therefore enables scalable and secure
web and mobile applications.

Conclusion

With its new features and release in the market, .NET has been booming in the world of
technology. It’s become the face of every web application. Whether you are planning to
develop dynamic websites or mobile apps or business intelligence applications, .NET has all
the features that make your apps more secure, reliable and scalable.

So, if you are looking for a reliable player to hand over your application development to,
then The One Technologies - Software Outsourcing Company is the right choice for you.
Being the top ASP.NET web development company, we provide you with robust web
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The Future of .NET

 

Earlier in Nov 2020, Microsoft announced .NET 5.0, the latest and a single unified
platform for .NET. .NET 5 is now the only platform. .NET 5 combines features of
both .NET Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.8x. With that said, the future of .NET is bright.
As you can see from the below roadmap of .NET, .NET will continue to improve and
evolve for several upcoming years.

 
If you're an existing .NET developer or want to become a .NET developer and want to
know that .NET learning has a good future, you should not be worried. .NET is one of
the popular and most used frameworks in IT industry. Most of the fortune 500
companies use .NET to build their software.

The current version of .NET is .NET 5.0. C# is the preferred programming language of
C#. Other programming languages are used in .NET are F#, TypeScript and VB.NET.
VB.NET is kind of fading away now. 

Key features of .NET are:

 .NET is open source 

 .NET is unified 
 .NET is a full stack development platform
 .NET is modern
 .NET is fast 
 .NET is evolving 
 .NET has a large community support behind it
 .NET has a clear path of upgrades and releases  

If you're interested in learning .NET now, Blazor is the technology you may want to focus
on for building web applications. Blazor comes in two flavors - Blazor Server and Blazor
WebAssembly. Check out Blazor here: Getting Started with Blazor
 

Cloud native applications is another growing area. Cloud native apps are developed and
deployed in Azure cloud and use cloud capabilities to full extent. If you're new to Cloud
native, read this article: Are You Cloud Native?

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It was Dec 1999, when I wrote my first C# program. Since then C# and .NET has come a
long way. The .NET Framework was introduced in 2001 and 19 years later, here we are.
In 2014, Microsoft shifted its focus and open sourced a new version of .NET, and named
it .NET Core. Today, .NET Core is managed and run by Microsoft and the open source
community.

 
Currently, there are two versions of .NET -- .NET Framework and .NET Core. Going
forward, there is going to be only one version of .NET and that is, .NET 5. .NET 5 takes
the best of .NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin, and Mono to provide libraries, APIs,
and run-time to build applications for Windows, Web, Mobile, and IoT devices.

C# 8.0 is the latest version of C# language that is supported in Visual Studio 2019. If you
plan to build a new application in .NET, you should use .NET Core 3.0 (the current
version) and C# 8, that will later be converted to a .NET 5 project. I’m assuming it will
have no or minimal changes.

.NET – A Unified Platform

 

.NET 5 provides libraries, frameworks, tools, and APIs to build, test, run, and deploy
software that targets all platforms including Windows, Linux, IoTs, macOS, iOS, Android,
tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly, and all devices including desktops, web browsers, IoT
devices, tablets, mobile phones, and more.

.NET Core is the future of .NET. The next version of .NET Core 3.0 is .NET 5. .NET 5 is a
unified platform that brings .NET everything under a single unified platform including
major high-level libraries and APIs, low-level libraries, type systems, run-time
components, compilers, languages, and tools.

 
.NET 5 Release Date
 

.NET 5 will is expected to be released in Nov 2020. The first preview of .NET 5 is
expected to be available in the first half of 2020 that will be supported by Visual Studio
2019 and Visual Studio Code. Here is a schedule announced by the .NET Team via their
blog. 

The next version of .NET 5 will be .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, and .NET 8.0. As a matter of fact,
the release dates of these versions are already announced. While .NET 5.0 will be
released in Nov 2020, the version 8.0 is expected to be released in Nov 2023.

As you can see from the above .NET roadmap, the important releases are going to be
available in November of each year.

.NET 5 Key Features

 

.NET 5 key features include 

 A single unified platform for everything including Windows, Mac, Web, Mobile,
Cloud, IoT, Gaming, Machine Learning and Data Science.
 Managed by open source community and supported by Microsoft.
  Cross-platform with any device anywhere.
 Supports all major platform capabilities for .NET Framework, .NET Core and
Xamarin including Windows Forms, WPF, UWP, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework,
LINQ and so on.
 Scalable, fast, and high performance.
 Smaller deployment and packages.
 Support of the most productive IDEs and tools including Visual Studio, VS Code,
VS for Mac, and Command Line Interface (CLI) 

.NET Languages and Runtimes

 

Mono is the runtime used as a part of Xamarin to build cross-platform applications.

CoreCLR is the runtime used as a part of .NET Core.  

In .NET 5, both runtimes will be supported, evolve, and will continue to work together.

.NET 5 will support major compilers, languages, and runtime that are currently
supported by .NET Framework and .NET Core. C#, F#, and VB.NET are expected to be a
part of .NET. XAML is also a major component as a part of .NET supported languages.

Learn more about C# programming here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/csharp-programming

Learn more about TypeScript here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/typescript

Desktop Development with .NET

 

.NET 5 will support all major desktop development libraries and functionalities. Four
major desktop platforms are Windows Forms, WPF, UWP and Xamarin.

Windows Forms or WinForms is a UI framework has been a part of .NET since its
inception. WinForms allows developers to build Windows UI apps. WinForms uses C# as
its backend code.

Learn more about WinForms here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/windows-forms

WPF allows developers to build modern Windows desktop applications using XAML and
C#. WPF was supposed to replace WinForms and for new apps, it has done so but
WinForms still continues to be used for legacy Windows desktop applications.

Learn more about WPF here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/wpf

UWP (Universal Windows Platform) framework is used to build next generation modern
UI applications for any Windows 10 devices including PC, tablets, smartphones, Xbox,
HoloLens, Surface Hub, and Windows 10 IoT Core. UWP provides a UI framework for
writing responsive apps that support a number of screen sizes and interaction models,
such as touch, mouse and keyboard, game controller, and pen. UWP is the key
framework used to build mixed-reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens.

Learn more about UWP here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/universal-windows-apps

Xamarin as a part of Visual Studio 2019 is a set of tools and libraries for building cross-
platform apps on the .NET platform that targets macOS desktop.

Learn more about Xamarin here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/xamarin

Entity Framework, LINQ, ADO.NET, GDI+ are other major sub frameworks for desktop
development that are supported by .NET 5.

Web Development with ASP.NET

 

ASP.NET Core and Web API will be part of .NET 5 to build Web and cloud applications. 

 
ASP.NET is an open source framework for building modern web apps and services.
ASP.NET is cross platform and runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Docker.

Here are some key capabilities of ASP.NET: 

 ASP.NET provides base framework for processing web requests on Web server
 Web-page templating syntax, known as Razor, for building dynamic web pages
using C#
 Libraries for common web patterns, such as Model View Controller (MVC)
 Authentication system that includes libraries, a database, and template pages for
handling logins, including multi-factor authentication and external authentication
with Google, Twitter, and more.
 Editor extensions to provide syntax highlighting, code completion, and other
functionality specifically for developing web pages
 Allows you to use your existing backend code, business logic, and data access
written in C#
 Support REST APIs with C# and .NET
 Real-time apps with SignalR. Learn
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/signalr
 Supports Microservices, independently deployable, highly scalable & resilient
services
 Supports TypeScript to build scalable and object-oriented JS apps
 Dynamic pages using C#, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the support of Razor
 Works with Angular, React, and other popular JS libraries 

Learn more about ASP.NET Core here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/Asp-Net-core

Mobile Development with .NET

 

Xamarin, supported by the Mono runtime, is used to build cross-platform mobile apps
for iOS, Android, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS platforms. Xamarin provides a set of
developer tools, programming languages, and libraries.

XAML is the major UI programming language for Xamarin. C# is used as the backend
language in Xamarin apps.

Learn more about XAML here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/xaml
 

Xamarin compiles C# and XAML code into native iOS and Android binaries before they
can be deployed on iOS and Android devices.

Learn more about Xamarin here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/xamarin

Cloud Development with .NET

 

Azure application development will be a major functionality of .NET 5. Developers will

continue to build software targeting Azure and more. Azure cloud development includes
a mix of frameworks and tools including ASP.NET, Web API, Serverless computing, data
models and Azure databases, microservices, docker containers, DevOps, and more.

Learn more about Azure and cloud development here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/azure

Game Development with .NET

 

Unity is an integral part of .NET gaming. Unity will be supported by .NET 5 and Visual
Studio 2019 to build games for Xbox, mobile, and other gaming platforms.

Learn more about Unity here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/unity 

Machine Learning with .NET 

Machine Learning in .NET is implemented via ML.NET. ML.NET is aimed at providing the
end-end workflow for consuming ML into .NET apps across various steps of machine
learning (pre-processing, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation and
operationalization).
ML.NET 1.0 not only lets you build you custom models, you can also automate. It works
everywhere including Windows, PowerBI, Azure, and more. ML.NET is extensible and
works with TensorFlow, ONNX, and Infer.NET.

Learn here: 

Getting Started with Machine Learning in .NET using ML.NET

IoT and Devices Development with .NET

 

.NET 5 will support Windows IoT devices and targets both ARM32 and ARM64
processors. UWP is used to build Windows devices apps running Windows 10 IoT Core.
The apps can run on Raspberry Pi, MinnowBoard MAX, DragonBoard 410c, and more.

Learn more about UWP and Windows 10 IoT Core development here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/internet-of-things

Interoperability in .NET
 

.NET will continue to work with other languages and libraries. Angular, React and other
popular JS libraries are supported in Visual Studio and can be integrated in .NET
projects. 

 Java interoperability will be available on all platforms.

 Objective-C and Swift interoperability will be supported on multiple operating
systems. Learn more about Swift Programming here: https://www.c-
sharpcorner.com/technologies/swift-programming
 CoreFX will be extended to support static compilation of .NET (ahead-of-time –
AOT), smaller footprints and support for more operating systems. 

Developer Tools and Integration

 

Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, and Command Line Interface
(CLI) will be the major tools to build .NET 5 applications.

Learn more about Visual Studio and its features here:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/visual-studio

References
 

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

 .NET 5

 .NET future

 Future of .NET

What is .NET? What's that for?

Microsoft's .NET Framework was a direct response to the popularity of the Java
platform. It first came in 2002 and it was meant for object-oriented programming.
Today the .NET development platform consists of .NET Framework, but also multiple
other products built during almost 20 years of development since its first release.
Among them, you will find .NET Core, and Xamarin. They all provide their own
libraries and serve a different purpose. While .NET Framework is the most matured
of them, .NET Core is suitable for a broader range of platforms, and Xamarin works
for mobiles. You will also find Microsoft-supported libraries for API connections and
tons of more.
 
One big plus of the .NET platform is how easy it is to integrate with other Microsoft
solutions. It's also a very mature platform with great support from both Microsoft and
the developers' community. For all kinds of applications, you write in .NET you only
need one IDE — Visual Studio, also from Microsoft.
 
.NET is great for apps with a wide range of features. Namely, web-based services,
desktop software, and cloud infrastructure. However, you can just use it for games
and Artificial Reality development.
 
.NET Framework supports over 60 programming languages. You can write code in
more than one of them at the same time and for the same application using shared
elements. 11 of those languages were developed by Microsoft. Languages
supported by MS and worth mentioning most are:
 C#
 Visual Basic .NET 
 C++/CLI
 F#
 PowerShell
 IronPython
What technical skills .NET engineers need?
Let's start with technologies specific to .NET developers. Mastering your knowledge
of these solutions is a must if you wish to be among the most wanted .NET
specialists.
 Visual Studio — IDE straight from Microsoft. Together with loads of extensions from MS and third-party providers, it
improves team collaboration, CI, integrations, etc.
 ASP.NET — this framework makes it easier to reuse your code in multiple places making it clearer. It gives you the ability to
set apart your application's code from its presentation layer. The framework supports many programming models too. For
example, the ASP.NET MVC allowing creating web apps according to MVC architecture pattern, or ASP.NET Web
API simplifying the creation of HTTP 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. With Entity, you
don't have to focus on the objects and relations of your application database and still use it efficiently. 
 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. It
provides you with information about the source code and helps to perform on-demand code analysis. 
 Xamarin — a platform of .NET developer tools and libraries. Handy especially when you work on mobile apps. With Xamarin
it's easier to build native applications with .NET. The platform consists of a base framework for accessing native features,
libraries for design patterns, platform-specific libraries, and editor extensions providing functionalities for mobile
development.
Technical skills universal to all developers
There are many less specific skills as well. They're important no matter what tech
stack you choose to master. Of course, the way you use them may differ for .NET
and, let's say, React Native. Still, they are quite universal for most programmers.
 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. It
will be useful not only for programming but also during testing and bug fixing.
 Code refactoring — there are many techniques of code refactoring. They all aim to redesign and create a simpler and
cleaner code resulting in higher efficacy of the application. Refactoring doesn't change any features of the application, it just
makes the code better.
 SCRUM — the ability to work in SCRUM, and generally the thorough understanding of Agile development principles is a
must for any software developer. Acquiring this skill will let you work with Project Managers smoothly as well. In some
situations, it may be beneficial to know something about the waterfall approach to projects as well.
 Unit testing frameworks — unit tests are important especially in SCRUM and Test Driven Development, so almost always.
As a developer, you should know the tools and frameworks suitable for the tech stack of your choice. For example, in the
case of .NET, you should know nUnit (the most popular unit test framework for .NET) and SpecFlow (used for test
automation for .NET).
 Build tools – for smaller and simpler applications, you can do it manually, but for more complex software created by a
remote team, you should use tools that automate the creation of executable applications. It helps to keep everything in order.
Examples are Azure DevOps, Team City, Jenkins, or NAnt and CCNet for .NET.
 Version control — it is a key idea for high-quality software development. Moreover, it improves the processes of
development and testing. You should be at least familiar with Git. Experience with a Git hosting service (GitHub, GitLab,
Bitbucket...) is a big plus.
 SDLC — software development life cycle describes the stages required to successfully develop software. Being familiar with
this concept gives you an understanding of your job and how all our jobs are interrelated.

.NET provides almost all types of technologies required for software development.

(1) For windows app development, we have winforms, wpf.

(2) For web development, we have Asp. Net webforms and Asp. Net MVC.

(3) For Webservices, we have WCF and Rest services (as a part of Asp. Net) .

(4) For mobile app development, we have Xamarin.

(5) For DB handling, we have ADO. Net and Entity Framework.

(6) For Cloud development, we have Azure and Azure SDK.

=> Latest technologies are Azure, Xamarin and Asp. Net MVC.

Instead of saying latest, I would rather say these are the most in demand technologies
right now.

=> Most used technologies are :

WPF for desktop, Asp. Net MVC for web development, Xamarin for cross platform mobile
app development.

et’s see here the lists of latest and most used technology in .NET:

1. The Popularity of . NET Core. ...

2. The Fabulous . NET 5. ...
3. Cloud Service. Cloud service has been booming in the market because it
provides a huge storage capacity. ...
4. Blazor Framework. ...
5. ML.NET 1.4. ...
6. Absolutely Secure Platform.