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What is .NET Framework?

The .NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library called Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages. Programs written for .NET Framework execute in a software environment (in contrast to a hardware environment) named the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR is an application virtual machine that provides services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. As such, computer code written using .NET Framework is called "managed code". FCL and CLR together constitute the .NET Framework.

How to hire for .NET?

Define your needs

To find a perfect fit for your team, you need to establish who that would be. To give you some examples: a good teammate, excellent level of English, business knowledge, with 3 years of experience, growth-attitude, etc.

Build a process

To filter the best possible hires, you need a set of steps. We call it a hiring funnel (it’s a lot like a sales funnel). Establish how you want to check your candidate’s skills, way of thinking, culture, and team fit. Prepare questions in advance and take a team member to the interview.

Overcome obstacles

Hiring .NET developers seems difficult because there are a lot of them in the market (but not everyone as experienced and promising as you wish), and there is also high demand. A well-thought-out process is your key to overcome these obstacles.

Here are common .NET development interview questions that can help you hire .NET developers that deserve a place on your team

Companies That Use .NET

.NET is so popular, quite a few major business enterprises are well-acquainted with the software. Companies that use .NET include the following:

Advantages of .NET

1. Object Oriented

.NET is based on Object-Oriented Programming Module. OOP is a development model that involves breaking down software into easily manageable smaller pieces. OOP compartmentalises data into data fields and describes objects behaviour through the declaration of classes.Object-Oriented Programming Module simplifies by making the code manageable, respond to recurring issues and easier to test. It eliminates necessary programming and hence less coding for developers. In addition to this, .NET makes it possible to reuse components and code, thereby saves time and cost of development.

2. Visual Studio IDE

Integrated Development Environment makes application development simpler by providing needed to write and test software.Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment by Microsoft which is used for building, debugging and publishing applications across various platforms, including Android and iOS.

The key features of the Visual Studio IDE:

Apart from this, Visual Studio Marketplace also brings a wide range of editor extensions that enable continuous integration, team collaboration, cloud-development management and third-party connections.

3. Cross-Platform Design

.NET Core is a cross-platform, which means it allows the code to run on Windows, Linux and OS X. dotNET core, unlike the original .NET framework has a fully open source code which ensures that a wide engineering community can contribute to its development.If you are writing the code in F#, C# or Visual Basic, your code will run each of the compatible operating systems. This allows companies to reach an extensive variety of platforms staying within the .NET ecosystem. At the same time, with the cross-platform design, it also becomes possible for the .NET community to share their large pool of engineering skillsets.

4. Flexible Deployment and Easy Maintenance

One of the crucial and most advantageous features of .NET Core is flexible deployment. It can be installed as a part of the application you are developing as well as separately. The modular design allows including all the dependencies that you need. Moreover, the deployment with .NET is as easy as copying a folder.Another benefit is that you can have more than one .NET Core versions running side by side on the same machine. Hence, making it easy to cover different projects and seamlessly perform a deployment task.

5. dotNET Core Supports Wide Range of Applications

With .NET framework, you get the opportunity to develop an application in a multitude of domains, such as gaming, mobile, IoT, AI.Microsoft has recently announced collaboration with SWIFT, which means putting AI and data in the center of Fintech. This will include creating an ecosystem that offers efficient and secure operations for banks and corporations.Businesses have realised the huge potential in Machine Learning, Big Data and AI. They are investing more and more in order to integrate such components in their applications. Healthcare, education, marketing, banking, business and pretty much everything in our daily life could utilize AI and Big Data, making life easier.

6. .NET Core Enables Top App Performance

With each released version, Microsoft added a few percentages on the performance of the application. Built using .NET Core framework, Stack Overflow, the leading knowledge website for coders, manages to serve it, users, with 5.3 M page views/day and that too with just 9 servers. Raygun, a company from New Zealand, developed a cloud-based monitoring application for web and mobile applications. The core of the application was written in the .NET framework, but they were using API that received data written in Node.js or Linux to support elasticity. Over time, Node.js framework becomes heavyweight and slower and required to be scaled up. However, this demanded budget investment. Hence, the company decided to port its API to .NET core. This resulted in increasing their throughput by 2000% just by using the same-size servers as before.Paired with the right database and architecture, the framework is the perfect solution for any kind of business which is needed to be scale eventually.

7. Cost-Effective

When choosing the appropriate technology, one of the first things that you check is the IDEs and tools that are mandatory or add to productivity.A lot of them are free, but the best ones come with licensing costs per developer, per, which can sum up to thousands of dollars. No matter, whether you are a Startup trying to find your way into the market or a big company, the money could be spent in a better way.Visual Code Studio by Microsoft has preferred by a large number of front-end developers as it is good, small, extensible and updated.When it comes to infrastructure, .NET Core offers you the freedom to pick a provider of your choice that provides you cheaper SLA. Moreover, you can choose to host your application in the cloud.Even if costs are not something you are worried about, not being forced to invest in something that is not crucial gives your business flexibility and opportunity to invest in the development of your team.

8. Large Community

When a framework is used by many businesses and developers, it means it has such features that attract them. It also proves its stability and high level of trust from the community, makes everyone try the framework.Moreover, a large community means that almost any issue can be solved with the aid of community members. According to the recent survey by Stack Overflow, ASP.NET took fourth place among the most popular frameworks, while dotNET and .NET core has ranked second and third.

Disadvantages of .NET

1. Limited Object-Relational Support

As mentioned above, .NET works on the Object-Oriented Programming approach, which is based on objects rather than actions and data rather than logic. The support of data-oriented software application development in .NET Framework is provided by the Entity Framework.The entity acts as the bridge between the object-oriented .NET Framework and SQL databases. However, some developers believe The Entity Framework doesn’t offer the required flexibility and doesn’t support all the available database designs.

2. Vendor Lock-in

.NET is a framework by Microsoft. While Xamarin and .NET Core are open sources, the whole ecosystem is far from being the community-driven. This means that your products will depend upon decisions made by Microsoft.

3. Memory Leaks

The problem of memory leaks is common with every technology. .NET is also one of those platforms that are frequently  has criticized for memory-related and memory leak issues.Although dotNET possesses a garbage collector for this problem, engineers are still require to invest additional efforts into resource management.

4. Difficulty in the transition to .NET core

The transition to dotNET core could be long and difficult. The applications built with older .NET versions are far more than that built with .NET core. Transiting these applications to the latest versions of .NET can be a little bumpy.

List of .NET Alternatives

1. GOLANG

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. The language is often referred to as Golang because of its former domain name, golang.org, but the proper name is Go.

2. Node JS

Node JS is an open-source, cross-platform, back-endJavaScriptruntime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application development around a single programming language, rather than different languages for server-side and client-side scripts.

3. Java

Java is a general-purpose, class-based, object-oriented programming language designed for having lesser implementation dependencies. It is a computing platform for application development. Java is fast, secure, and reliable, therefore. It is widely used for developing Java applications in laptops, data centers, game consoles, scientific supercomputers, cell phones, etc.

4. Python

Python is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasises code readability with its use of significant indentation. Its language constructs as well as its object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects

5. PHP

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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