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Dear all I am working as a Level 1 and Level 2 automation engineer in a Steel Industry. I have 10 Years of Industrial Experience. I have experience in PLC and SCADA Development and modifying the .net applications provided by the technology supplier as per the Plant requirements. Now I am confused in selecting a my career path. I have basic understanding in .net technologies and Oracle Database. My job is query a Database and create reports in crystal reports managing modifying a windows based .net applications. I am willing to enter into software industry. Kindly guide me which Field I can choose and certifications suitable for my career growth. Thanks

Vincent Maverick Durano · Answer

That really depends on your interest considering that there are bunch of development platforms to choose from. But since you are coming from a Windows background then I would recommend you to start looking into ASP.NET. ASP.NET provides a variety of platforms that you can use to get yourself into web development. ASP.NET offers three frameworks for creating web applications: Web Forms ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Pages. All three frameworks are stable and mature and you can create great web applications with any of them. No matter what framework you choose you will get all the benefits and features of ASP.NET everywhere. Now which web development framework to choose? Since you are coming from a Windows Forms development background then you can start jumping into WebForms to take advantage of the design surface powerful server controls and components. This is the easiest entry point to ASP.NET because you are already familiar with the drag-and-drop and event driven model from windows forms. If you are willing to take the challenge I would really recommend you to learn ASP.NET MVC over WebForms. Why? (1) Provides a clean separation of concerns (the Model the View and the Controller) (2) Gives you full control over your codes HTTP Request Response JavaScripts CSS HTML and so on (3) Provide clean and friendly Urls through it's built-in routing capability (4) You'll get the feel of real web development because there's no abstraction involved. (5) It's easy for you to learn Web API as it follows/uses Controller based pattern like MVC Alternatives: You could also try learning SPA technology like Angular or Knockout as front-end but this would probably give you a big learning curves as you will mostly dealing with client-side scripting. But if you really want to be a real web developer then you have no choice but learn these technologies. Smile | :) But Where do I start? You can pick a book that you are interested or refer to online tutorials and apply three things READ DO and LEARN. Learning something is a just matter of doing something.In my own experience the easiest way to learn is to develop a sample application in your own by applying the things you've learned from the book or tutorials. I'm sure you will learn a lot as you go along implementing your own web application. HTH! :)

Varatha Rajan · Answer

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Vinay Singh · Answer

Always choose which you most like.