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Oh and don't forget the blockchain. It's tech trying to find itself, but it's coming too. And for those that think it's not, the dotcom bust happened and yet we're still on a website. It's just the law of nature. We get something new, people freak out. Boom, bad stuff. Build it back up the way it should've been built the first time. Nobody used Windows 1.0 either, but blockchain is coming. Get on board or get left behind.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Build it back up the way it should've been built the first time.
Are you sure we have done this with the internet and the dotcoms...? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Touché 
Jeremy Falcon
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Annnnnnnd one more. 
If you want to just leverage your existing skills, you could do so in the context of a cloud provider. Sure, you've used SQL Server, but have you used Amazon's RDS on top of it? More and more companies are using the cloud for just about everything. It's like the franchising of the tech infrastructure world. Infrastructure in a box. There's AWS, Azure, and even Google now all have their own offerings.
So does Oracle, but they suck. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Based on your experience with SQL Server and C# I would suggest you stay within the Microsoft ecosystem. Namely - asp.net core. You can focus on Blazor because it doesn't require JavaScript. You will also need some accompanying stuff like CSS and HTML, but you probably already know that. And a piece of advice - don't buy the cheapest books on any of these subjects. They are cheap for a reason.
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I think this is really a great answer, building on the existing skillset in the question.
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could you recommend some that are not "cheap"?
ed
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I would stick with the big publishers like "Apress", "Murach" etc. and stay clear from self-published authors, college professors (especially those), pulp fiction like O'Reilly or Microsoft certification classes. Any professional book under 30 bucks is rather suspicious.
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I think that when planning skills upgrade in software development, it is also necessary to include skills related to Git, Github, Bitbucket and some basic use of Jira. Of course "it depends"  , in ecosystems which I experienced this was "a baseline" and I expect these to be quite common ...
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Don't forget soft skills such as conflict resolution and project and/or time management. Employers are always looking for these types of skills.
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obermd wrote: conflict resolution
Elephanting overrated! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Those and anger management classes. 
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become a scrum master and change career track to a project manager...
diligent hands rule....
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I would suggest you to leave your comfort zone and step away from the Microsoft backyard... There is so much more out there. Pick one!
For server side programming Golang, Python and C++
For Web/Client: NodeJS
For Client desktop For example: C++/Qt
For Client, apps: Kotlin
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: For server side programming Golang, Python and C++
For Web/Client: NodeJS
Yes, I guess "leaving your comfort zone" is an appropriate description.
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When it comes to comfort zone, that's like going from being a passenger on a plane to standing on the wing, lol.
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IMHO jumping on C++ with just VB/C# background will be painful and not verry productive. This is not some new language, it's a different mindset. Unless you are in your early 20, I wouldn't recommend that.
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Are you implying that people past their early 20s are incapable of handling assembler code C/C++?
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To make such major transition you need a plenty of "buffer" time. Time that you don't have if you do this for a living. And unless you're doing something trivial like MFC you need accompanying knowledge of computer architecture (as a bare minimum), embedded systems, or electronics, or controllers or cryptography etc.. What are you using your C++ for?
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 Yep. Depends if you are taking blood pressure medication. And if you are not, you will be
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Based on existing skills, expand
some others pointed out, so like connecting with cloud services. Azure or Amazon
if like database work, then Linq (method or query syntax) and database as code stuff (code first) in either C# (i assume VP.Net has same support)
and then connecting and interacting with the various cloud storage solutions: Blob, Cosmos (if not renamed this week  ), and Tables (I like the Tables for small flexible working storage)
And then C# 11, and the very quick jumps of major versions in c#6 was 2015, now is c# 11. Syntactic sugar, some I am a bit nope, but some like returned named tuples, instead of creating yet another object or returning Item1,Item2
Figure out the WHAT not the HOW, what do you want to make, then look up what languages or features can help make. If an employer is demanding language X, but you can comfortably say well this language is better suited, better supported, and longer lasting, and I can start working on it today, or sure, take risk on that which young dev moves company in 6 months, and then you stuck hiring someone at x2 because no one wants to to that language.
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That is a major part on my problem. I need a job soon. and all of the languages "du jour" seem to be changing every day.
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I can not offer assistance re/ your concern but may I please inquire as you are a Microsoft employee would you happen to know the number of engineers assigned to the development of Visual Studio . This is something I have wondered about for some time . Thank You Kindly - Best
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Not an employee, been using their products. I'd like to know that myself.
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Edward,
The way you asked the question gets you a lot of answers that reflect the experience of the responders. Skills are only a part of the equation, and I don't think it's of value for any of us to just spew out a list of the latest or greatest skills. The industry is large enough so you can find 'demand' with a widely varied skill set. As someone said, there are really good Cobol jobs that are in demand due to the scarcity of Cobol programmers.
What I'd ask of you is:
What is your work experience at this point? If you've been around since GWB, you're not starting out in your career.
What do you want to do? Small team, large team, challenging, comfortable, etc. Are you looking to be a DBA, Front end, or back end programmer? Desktop, web, phone apps?
'Very good with SQLs' - on a CRUD level or design and interdependency level? It's a relatively easy jump to Postgres or MySQL but again, what are your goals in that case?
'Moderate acquaintances with C#/VB.net'. With the vastness of .net languages, that's not telling me a lot.
Industry-wise, my thoughts are that Web/Cloud is the way to go. I'd forget AI and Web 3.0. IoT and VR are promising but those could be really tough skills to take on, depending on your experience.
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