.NET Developer Roadmap 2025.

Classes Operators Collections

Access modifiers Assemblies Boxing/Unboxing

Virtual keyword Parameter types Arrays

Must know Generics Interfaces Async / await

Using keyword Casting Delegates/Events

Nice to know
out keyword Strings

Legend Reference and Statements and

value types expressions

Basics of C# 6-13
File I/O Networking Security

.NET 9 Collections Multithreading Cryptography

Exceptions Channels
.NET Framework 4.8

Singleton 1.1.C#
C# dotnet CLI
How Internet works

Factory Method NuGet

HTTP/HTTPS
Repository Git
Adapter DNS

Creational
Facade Data structures &
algorithms Web basics REST
Structural
Decorator
Clean code and 2. General MVC GraphQL
Behavioral
Proxy refactoring
development skills
APIs
SOLID, YAGNI, DRY,
Command KISS principles
Microservices
Web APIs Minimal APIs FastEndpoints
Template Method
Design Patterns Controllers
Strategy
Layered Middlewares

Software
3. ASP.NET
3. ASP. NETCore
Observer Cookies
architectures
Core Filters & Attributes
MVC
OIDC Middleware
Architecture Authentication &
MVP patterns Authorisation ASP.NET Core Identity

MVVM OAuth 2.0

Dependency Injection

Domain-Driven Design Razor JSON Web Tokens

4. Client-side
4. Client-Side .NET
IdentityServer
Blazor
NET
.NET MAUI Postgres
Database design

WPF SQL Server

SQL Syntax
Azure SQL
WinForms Stored procedures
MySQL/MariaDB
Relational
5. Databases
5. Databases NoSQL
MongoDB

RavenDB
Learn basics

Cosmos DB
Code first &
migrations Marten MSTest
Entity Framework
Core
or xUnit
Change tracker API
6. ORM
Dapper
6. ORM or
Frameworks nUnit
Lazy/eager loading
LINQ Mocking
NSubstitute
Unit Testing
Shouldly

Integration Testing Bogus

Test Data Generators
AutoFixture
7. Testing
7. Caching Snapshot Testing
WebApplicationFactory
End-to-End Testing
TestServer

Performance Testing

Microsoft.Extensions.Logging Verify

Playwright
Serilog
8. Logging
K6
NLog

SignalR Core
Real-time
Web Sockets
9. Communication
9. Communication Synchronous

Asynchronous HTTP Client

MassTransit

Native Backround Service RabbitMQ

HangFire 10.10. Background

Background Azure Service Bus

taskstasks
Quartz Apache Kafka

Memory Cache

Hybrid Cache
11. Testing
11. Caching
Redis

Application-level
ELK Stack

Datadog

Prometheus Monitoring
12. Observability
12. Observability
Grafana
Telemetry

Jaeger OpenTelemetry

Docker

Containers
Azure Container Registry
13. Containerization
13. Containerization Orchestration

Kubernetes

Helm

Azure

Cloud
14.Cloud
14.
Google Cloud

.NET Aspire
CI/CD Concepts

GitHub Actions

15. Continous GitLab CI

Core concepts
integration &
Azure Pipelines
Supervised learning
delivery
Unsupervised learning Machine Learning Basics Travis CI

Working with LLM Jenkins

Azure AI services

Cloud AI Services
OpenAI API
16. AI & Machine
16. AI & Machine Learning
ML.NET
.NET AI Libraries
Learning
Semantic Kernel MediatR

Polly

FluentValidation

17. .NET Libraries BenchmarkDotNet

17. NET Libraries
Refit

YARP

Swashbuckle*