What to learn as a .net developer if you have 3-6 months of time

[ch19707]

I have 8+ years of development experience in asp.net/sql primarily, some WPF/win form. I am wondering what's your opinion if you have next serveral months to focus on some technology? A few things in mind as below with my order of preferrence :) what's your thought? MVC WCF Mobile development - iOS and Android Application/Solution Architecture Thanks!

[loctrice]

Do you know linq? It's worth some time for sure. Personally, I think wcf before MVC.

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[OriginalGriff]

CListCtrl is always handy...as is LiquidNitrogen.

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[mikepwilson]

perl

[Rage]

More specifically, "reading perl syntax". 6 months is too short to learn "perl".

~RaGE();

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[Rage]

ch19707 wrote:

if you have next serveral months to focus on some technology?

*cough* lost your job again, huh ?

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

[OriginalGriff]

Herself picked it up a lot quicker than that: "Knit one, perl one. Knit one..."

You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

[Tim Carmichael]

Casting before swine...

[thatraja]

Any Javascript libraries like Angular, Knockout, etc.,

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[Slacker007]

base on your given list, MVC and WCF, I guess.

[Lost User]

I've been working with ASP.NET MVC for a few years and it's definitely a step up from WebForms. I'd agree with what another poster said here though: look into JS frameworks like Knockout (my preference) or AngularJS. Microsoft's Web API is also pretty good for AJAX applications. I'm placing a bet on Apple's Swift language becoming very popular too, go planning to get (what's left of) my teeth stuck into that sometime soon. I think mobile development kind of goes hand-in-hand with web development in a lot of ways.

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[mikepwilson]

heh. perhaps. but you can be useful in an hour :)

[mikepwilson]

I hate how much I love working in perl. It's no C++, and I wouldn't recommend it aside from being flip. But damn it sure does make hard stuff trivial.

[Slacker007]

Rage wrote:

More specifically, "reading perl syntax". 6 months is too short to learn "perl".

to take one more level down, perl reg ex, the long, complicated stuff. Oh, yeah!!

[gardnerp]

loctrice wrote:

Do you know linq? It's worth some time for sure.

Agreed!

var itemToLearn = DotNetTechnologies
.Where(o => !o.IsKnown)
.OrderByDescending(o => o.Usefullness)
.ThenByDescending(o => o.Awesomeness)
.First();

Assert(itemToLearn == Linq);

[Joe Woodbury]

Depends what kind of job you want.

[Lost User]

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[Dr Walt Fair PE]

I used to enjoy surfing, with real water and waves and sand. You could get some skill in that in a few months. And it's more interesting that doing .NET stuff.

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[Brendan Costigan]

Learn what you have a chance of using. If you’re not going to use something you will forget it as fast as you learnt it.

All round good guy.

[Fabio Franco]

Definitelly MVC. You can learn some side technologies along with it, like LINQ and WCF. But really go with MVC, you have no idea of how takes the pain out of web development like in WebForms.

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