Why .NET?
.NET has gone through a remarkable transformation in recent years. What used to be seen as Microsoft territory — tied to Windows servers and proprietary ecosystems — is today an open, cross-platform runtime with Linux and macOS support, open source and an active community ecosystem.
Three points make .NET a solid choice: first, high performance — the Common Language Runtime and its JIT/AOT compilers compete with native languages in many benchmarks. Second, C# as a mature language with modern features (records, pattern matching, async/await) and excellent tooling. Third, integrated cloud connectivity — Azure is deeply integrated, other cloud providers are fully supported.
For many mid-sized companies, .NET is particularly relevant when existing systems on .NET Framework or ASP.NET Web Forms must be modernised over the coming years — a task that needs to be approached with structure to keep risk under control.
Performance
JIT/AOT compilation, Span, highly optimised CLR — on par with native languages.
Cross-platform
Linux, macOS, Windows, containers — a single codebase for all targets.
C# as a language
Modern, expressive, with first-class tooling — Visual Studio, Rider, VS Code.
Cloud-native
Deep Azure integration, full container/Kubernetes readiness, OpenTelemetry support.
Runtimes and platforms
Four key building blocks shape today's .NET world. The right pick depends on whether you build backend services, web UIs or cross-platform applications.
.NET 8 / 9
Core lineage · since 2016The unified, cross-platform runtime that replaced the old .NET Framework. LTS releases (8, 10) come with three years of support, STS releases (9) with eighteen months. The recommended foundation for all new development.
When to use
Default for any new backend, any new cloud application — and the migration target for legacy .NET Framework apps.
ASP.NET Core
Web framework · since 2016The web and service framework on .NET. Provides REST APIs, gRPC services, SignalR (real-time), minimal APIs for lean endpoints and Razor Pages. Fully replaces classic ASP.NET, Web Forms and Web API.
When to use
Backend APIs, microservices, web applications — the standard choice in the .NET space.
Blazor
Web UI · since 2018Single-page applications in C# instead of JavaScript. Three modes: server-side (real-time via SignalR), WebAssembly (in the browser) and the more recent hybrid mode combining server and client rendering.
When to use
When the codebase should remain consistently in C# and the team has less frontend-specific expertise.
.NET MAUI
Cross-platform · since 2022Multi-platform App UI — the successor to Xamarin.Forms. One codebase for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, without giving up the platform-native look.
When to use
Native mobile and desktop apps when the team is at home in C# (alternative to Flutter).
Our experience
In the .NET space too, our team and partners bring long-standing experience — from .NET Framework 1.1 (2003) through the Core generation to today's unified .NET 8/9. We know the migration paths from legacy systems (.NET Framework, ASP.NET Web Forms, Silverlight) to modern .NET workloads from real practice.
That experience translates into measured risk assessments: which components can be migrated automatically, where does a targeted refactor pay off, when is a rebuild more sensible than a modernisation. We make those calls with you — based on the actual codebase, not on slideware.
AI-augmented development
As in our Java work, we have been applying AI-augmented development tooling systematically in .NET projects since 2024. The engineer remains responsible for the result — but the speed at which code is written, refactored and tested has changed noticeably.
Concretely, agent-based coding assistants relieve us during boilerplate generation, test creation and especially during migrations from the .NET Framework to modern .NET. On standardised implementation and migration work we see speed gains of 30 to 50 percent; the cost of that work drops accordingly.
Quality control remains with the human: AI-generated code goes through the same reviews, is covered with tests and validated in the CI pipeline as any handwritten code. We don't sell black-box magic — we deliver accelerated, traceable development.
