Now that .NET 3.0 has been out for over half a year and that WPF and Silverlight seem to be gaining ground, are .NET 2.0 developers becoming obsolete? Or are there still a ton of jobs for .NET 2.0 developers?
I’m interested in the job market for .NET 2.0 and 3.0. How do they compare? How much more time does .NET 2.0 have?
Also .NET 3.5 will also be released this year too.
.NET 3.0 gives you some additional graphical APIs that let you hook into Vista’s new graphical capabilities.
I believe that with the retail market having trouble accepting Vista (see Dell’s recent announcement to let customers choose XP over Vista) - Plus with all the (perceived, or not) compatibility issues I doubt that many companies are looking to deploy Vista to their workstations. So, I don’t see .NET 2.0 being obsolete for another 3 years.
Regarding the job market comparison, I think you’re better off learning .NET 2.0 because it seems like more apps are written with this framework version in mind.
August 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
.NET 3.0 gives you some additional graphical APIs that let you hook into Vista’s new graphical capabilities.
I believe that with the retail market having trouble accepting Vista (see Dell’s recent announcement to let customers choose XP over Vista) - Plus with all the (perceived, or not) compatibility issues I doubt that many companies are looking to deploy Vista to their workstations. So, I don’t see .NET 2.0 being obsolete for another 3 years.
Regarding the job market comparison, I think you’re better off learning .NET 2.0 because it seems like more apps are written with this framework version in mind.
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Learn the fundamentals of software development and design. At that point, learning new languages is much simpler.
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