What is a NET developer

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I have been noticing that some software engineering jobs are asking for  NET developers  but I have never been given a definition  formal or informal  of what experience is required to be able to call yourself a  NET developer   I have taken a couple classes where we needed to make Windows Forms every other week using Visual Studio  but I am pretty sure this is not sufficient   I m assuming you need to be familiar with most if not all technologies on the  NET Framework Developer Center   but I could be wrong  which is why I am asking    -   So  what skills do you need to be able to market yourself as a  NET developer   Or more specifically  what do employers expect you to know if you market yourself as a  NET developer

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Though I consider myself a  NET developer  I don t prefer calling it that way  c  developer sounds much better and is a much clearer message  it says that I understand both C  and  NET  because C  and  NET are tied together   I could call myself a VB NET developer  same story there   What is a  NET developer  I don t know  because you cannot develop with  NET  if develop is a synonym for programming   NET is the environment  the libraries  the languages  the CLR  the CLI  JIT  the LR  the BCL  the IDE and the IL  I find it a poor job description  but it may also mean that they don t really care  either you are an F   a C   an IronPython or a VB NET developer  they re all implicitly and secretly  NET developers   What do you need  A solid understanding why   NET  is a poor job description and ask for a more precise one  Nobody can know everything of  NET  it is simply too wide  Orientate yourself to all sides of it and do both ASP NET and WinForms  Don t forget Silverlight  WPF etc and two or three  NET languages    In other words  know the forest by knowing what trees and flowers it habitats and specialize in knowing a few beautiful and common ones well

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Generally what s meant by that is a fairly intimate familiarity with one  or probably more  of the  NET languages  C   VB NET  etc   and one  or less probably more  of the  NET stacks  WinForms  ASP NET  WPF  etc     As for a specific  formal definition   I don t think you ll find one beyond that  The job description should be specific about what they re looking for  I wouldn t consider a job listing that asks for a   NET developer  and provides no more detail than that to be sufficiently descriptive

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CLR  BCL and C  VB Net  ADO NET  WinForms and or ASP NET  Most of the places that require additional  Net technologies  like WPF or WCF will call it out explicitly

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I d say the minimum would be to   know one of the  Net Languages  C   VB NET  etc   know the basic working of the  Net runtime know and understand the core parts of the  Net class libraries have an understanding about what additional classes and functions are available as part of the  Net class libraries

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Most  NET jobs I ve run across also either explicitly or implicitly assume some knowledge of SQL-based RDBMSes  While it s not  part of the description   it s usually part of the job

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