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by tinus_hn 1619 days ago
There’s plenty of work using the Microsoft stack of the week, just don’t be surprised when they drop todays model like a brick as they switch over to yet another new one.

They probably burned people a few times too often, which is one of the reasons people rather stay away. And another one might be that it’s all ‘enterprise’ which isn’t necessarily an inspiring environment.

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> Just don’t be surprised when they drop todays model like a brick as they switch over to yet another new one

This is very true from the client perspective (Silverlight? MAUI? WPF? WTF?).

From the server perspective, however, you are on solid ground.

From .NET Framework v1 (around 2000/2001?) they've stuck with and improved C# and said Framework, including spinning up the cross platform DotNet Core replacement which was largely a smooth code transition if you didn't jump too soon.

And they've been with it for 20 years. Even when they've moved on with some bits (eg ADO/ADO.Net/ODP/XSD/EF for database access) the old ways continue to run.