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Can I get a list of things that I need to know as a .NET developer?

• pjmlp 12y ago
  What about starting here? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa496123 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa496123
• gokhan 12y ago
  Apart from knowing the language (c#, vb whatever) well, take a look at the underlying framework. Newcomers omit that part most of the time. Might help with lots of decisions. - The importance of .Net framework for your program. What happens when you double click on a .Net exe? What happens at the start of a web application? Is the framework is always there or started per app? - Spend some time with ildasm. Learn what a manifest is. What is it good for. What is Intermediate Language (IL)? - Difference between reference and value types. Heap and stack. - What is garbage collection? How the garbage collector is working? IDisposable pattern. - Why generic classes are important? What was there before them? - Static vs. instance method calls. - Passing object references around and keeping a reference (hence preventing GC, especially important for Desktop apps with improper use of events and references) - For desktop devs: UI thread, background threads, patterns to pass data between these two. - Basic OO. Virtual methods, overrides, new keyword, interfaces. - Why strings are immutable? etc.