Posted by: kurtsh | October 23, 2011

NEWS: .NET/ASP.NET & Visual Studio skills one of the fastest growing, most in-demand markets for developers

Is Microsoft disappearing?  
Is .NET a dying platform? 
Are companies looking for nothing but “Web 2.0” knowledgeable workers? 

If you live in California, you might think so with the reality distortion field that surrounds & clouds the thoughts of high-risk dot-coms, impractical startups, and marketing hype machines that populate this state.

Answer:  An emphatic, “I don’t think so”.  Take it from this Business Insider article:

image…As of October 1, Dice had more than 10,000 listings looking for skill with Microsoft’s developer platform .NET (up 29% from last year), more than 8,000 with the Microsoft programming language C# (up 26%), and more than 6,000 (up 24%) referencing the ASP.NET Web development technology. Anecdotally, Dice’s teams are hearing from a lot of employers that there’s a real crunch for qualified .NET developers.

Microsoft’s collaboration product SharePoint is also hot, with more than 4,000 listings, up 42% from last year. Dice explains that companies in the Midwest are particularly hot for SharePoint developers.

Other technologies may have more listings or faster growth, but few combine both — for instance J2EE/Java tops the list with more than 18,000 job postings but was up only 19% from last year, and Ruby on Rails was up 67% but is found in only 1,800 listings.

The only non-Microsoft technology that is clearly a better bet is JavaScript, with more than 10,000 listings and 53% growth from last year.

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And guess what’s already one of the very best tools for planning, developing, debugging, & most of all ‘engineering’ Javascript code?

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express.  And it’s completely FREE.

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