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by uncheckederror 2039 days ago
Make sure you have a plan to upgrade all your projects to .NET 5.[1]

ASP.NET is quite fun, if you can keep your work up to date. Opening up a project that needs bug fixes, but doesn't have access to the latest tooling in VS2019 or language syntax because it still on the old .NET Framework is a bummer.

Any company that was willing to update their .NET apps regularly, and treat development of the app as a service rather than a one time project would make me jump ship.

[1] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0/
1 comments
kirillzubovsky 2039 days ago
Seems like companies that are not updating their apps is more common than those that do. I wonder why.

When you say `ASP.NET is quite fun`, what's your favorite part?

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uncheckederror 2039 days ago
My favorite part is the tooling. For example when you hover over a method name in VS 2019 it will show you its signature and what parameters it takes. If you right click on it and select "Go to definition" it will show you the code for the method. Just above the method name you'll a little chunk of text that says "2 References" which you can click on to see all of the places in your project where the method is invoked and links to review them. What makes ASP.NET fun is the quality and completeness of the tooling.
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the_only_law 2039 days ago
> Seems like companies that are not updating their apps is more common than those that do. I wonder why.

I'm guessing this is just a product of .NET being big in the "enterprise" world. I dont mind modern Java, but I remember when I was working with Java around Java 7 people would complain about being stuck maintaining Java 1.4-1.5 apps.

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