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I am doing a bit of private study with a view of broadening my skills in the job market. There are tonnes of jobs advertising ASP.net c# and the like. My question is, should I spend my time doing standard ASP.net or is this new fangled ASP.net MVC seriously taking hold in the industry?

Where would my time be best spent?

Cheers in advance.

In reply to ByEek:

MVC is a design pattern so is language agnostic.

Microsoft's .net framework basically allows you to write code in your language of choice and it is then converted to a standard pcode (or similar) which an interpreter can then run. So c#.net is code written in c#, ASP.net is code written in ASP, etc. but both would be run within the same sw runtime environment.

I haven't done any ASP programming but it's basically Microsoft's version of PHP (there's also JSP which is based on Java). They are broadly similar and all do the same thing, act as an intermediary for backend services such as databases and serve up web pages.

In reply to Bob:
I understand about MVC, but ASP.net MVC is the thing in its own right and seems to be completely different to conventional ASP.net. For a start it doesn't use aspx files but htmlcs files using the Razor syntax for the view. Then there is a whole framework of routing and magic with specific forms for model and controller classes, to say nothing of the entity framework witchcraft. It is all rather bewildering.

In reply to ByEek:

Sounds like more of Microsoft's emperor's new clothes. I gave up with MS stuff years ago when it became apparent that there was no real upgrade path from one technology to the next - you had to start all over again.

In reply to ByEek:

I would suggest starting with just basic asp.net and spend more time on the c# part (which underpins both anyway). Then play a bit with MVC and something like Angular to get a taste of the different options.
Entity framework is worth learning though.

In reply to ByEek:

got some work coming up using good old classic..

In reply to ByEek:
Type c#, asp.net, MVC combinations or variations into the jobs search on theregister.Co.uk to gauge where the demand is.

I prefer perl, python, php but i reckon
C# - yes
MVC - eventually

In reply to elsewhere:


Yes I have done that. However, agents (who know nothing) seem to enter absolutely every related buzzword into the job specs so that their ad is found by just about any specific job search so you are no better off.

I have decided that the razor MVC specific side of things is a bit specialist at the moment and opted for straight aspx type development with C# and entity framework as my initial assignment.

Cheers for the replies.