.NET Full Stack Development
One language, the whole product. Build enterprise-grade applications in C# — from the data model to an interactive browser UI — and understand every layer you ship. Not the trendiest choice in this section; one of the most durable and best-rewarded. Built for fresh IT graduates and working professionals alike.
.NET's distinguishing offer is one language, one runtime, end to end — C# from the database layer to the browser, on a platform with LTS guarantees, first-class tooling and the deepest enterprise footprint of anything in our catalogue. And unlike the JavaScript courses in this section, the release cadence is predictable, LTS versions carry multi-year support, and the skills date slowly — for a working professional weighing a large time commitment, that is a real argument, and we make it openly.
The syllabus teaches the platform as it works now, not as 2019 tutorials describe it. Blazor render modes are a headline module: rendering is a per-component decision — static server, streaming, interactive server, interactive WebAssembly, automatic — not the old whole-application binary, and it is the single biggest source of confusion and bugs in modern Blazor, including the classic mistake of debugging a server-interactive component in browser devtools while the code executes on the server. Alongside it: minimal APIs as a first-class approach with honest guidance on when controllers still win, .NET Aspire for cloud-native development — barely taught anywhere, a genuine differentiator here — modern C# with less ceremony, modern EF Core, and Native AOT with a clear-eyed account of when it's worth its constraints. An honesty thread runs through the architecture module too: a well-designed modular monolith is the right answer for most teams, and microservices are a response to organisational scale, not a default.
It is designed for two audiences at once. If you are a fresh IT graduate targeting enterprise engineering — banking, insurance, healthcare, government, large product organisations — this is the platform those industries run on. If you are a working professional — especially a developer on .NET Framework or older .NET who needs the modern platform, a very large group — this course is the modernisation path, ending with a legacy migration track. The program runs 14 weeks (~110 hours), live and build-along, closing with a deployed, monitored capstone defended on architecture.
Where This Fits in the Section
- .NET Full Stack Development (this course) — one language, one runtime, end to end. Choose it when you're targeting enterprise engineering, or when your team is already Microsoft-centric.
- Django, FastAPI and Node.js — the Python and JavaScript equivalents on the backend side.
- React.js and Next.js — the frontend-first path. No disparagement either way: the right choice follows your target industry and your team's stack.
Why Learn .NET When AI Writes C#?
Same honest answer as the rest of this section: AI writes C# and scaffolds controllers fluently, and gets the things that matter wrong — dependency injection lifetimes, async correctness, EF Core query patterns that trigger N+1 problems or load an entire table into memory, and render-mode decisions in Blazor. Those surface in production, not in a demo. The value is architecture, review, debugging and operational judgment. You'll use AI tooling as an accelerator you review, and you'll learn the failure patterns generated .NET code repeats — so you ship its speed without shipping its mistakes.
Course at a Glance
- Duration: 14 weeks | ~110 hours | live + hands-on
- Format: Live online · build-along · deployed enterprise-style applications
- Prerequisite: Basic programming in any language. C# and web fundamentals taught from first principles. No prior .NET experience required.
- Curriculum: 12 modules, from the C# platform to deployment, legacy migration and capstone
- Portfolio: 8 deployed, enterprise-style projects plus a defended capstone
- Curriculum reviewed: July 2026 — the .NET platform versions predictably; this syllabus tracks the current LTS line
Course Highlights
- Every module leads with what you build and ship, not what you "learn about"
- One language end to end — C# from data model to browser UI
- Blazor render modes as a headline module — per-component decisions, prerendering, knowing where your code runs
- DI lifetimes taught as the most common source of subtle production bugs
- EF Core in depth — N+1 kills, bulk operations without loading entities, reading real SQL
- .NET Aspire for cloud-native development — barely taught anywhere, first-class here
- Architecture honesty: the modular monolith as the sensible default
- A legacy modernisation track — .NET Framework to modern .NET, planned properly
- AI tooling as an accelerator you review, never a substitute for understanding
Hands-on Projects & Portfolio
Layered architecture, EF Core migrations and full test coverage.
Deliberately exercising multiple render modes, with a written rationale for each choice.
Validation, OpenAPI docs, versioning and problem-details error handling.
Policy-based authorisation and external identity.
Live updates, presence and reconnection handling.
Multi-service solution with telemetry and service discovery.
Find and fix N+1 and memory-loading problems with profiler evidence.
Assess an older .NET Framework codebase and produce a migration plan.
Production-grade full-stack application, deployed, monitored and defended.
Tools & Stack
C# .NET ASP.NET Core Blazor Entity Framework Core SignalR .NET Aspire xUnit Moq Playwright Testcontainers SQL Server PostgreSQL Redis Docker Kubernetes Azure OpenTelemetry Serilog Visual Studio Git GitHub Actions
Career Outcomes
.NET has the deepest enterprise footprint of any platform in our catalogue — banking, insurance, healthcare, government, manufacturing and large product organisations run on it — which makes demand steady rather than cyclical, and heavily represented in India's enterprise services and global capability centres. A very large volume of existing .NET Framework code still needs modernising, which is durable, well-rewarded work — and the platform's predictable LTS cadence means these skills date far more slowly than frontend framework skills. This course targets:
- .NET Developer
- Full Stack Developer (.NET)
- Backend Engineer
- Software Engineer in enterprise product teams
- Solution Architect (with experience)
- Cloud Engineer (Azure-centric)
- Technical Lead
Who This Course Is For
- Final-year students and fresh IT graduates targeting enterprise engineering roles
- Developers already working on .NET Framework or older .NET who need the modern platform — a very large audience, and the legacy track was built for you
- Java, Python, PHP and Node developers moving into the Microsoft ecosystem
- Frontend developers who want backend and full-stack depth in a single language
- Support, QA and services engineers moving into development in enterprise organisations
- Teams standardising on Azure and Microsoft tooling
Material Includes
- Class recordings
- Solution starter repos & architecture templates
- Migration assessment checklists & review rubrics
- Certificate
Prerequisites
- Basic programming in any language
- C# and web fundamentals taught from first principles
- No prior .NET experience required
Estimated Time: 10 Hours
You ship:- A working C# toolkit of console and library projects — records, pattern matching, LINQ and async throughout — built with the SDK and CLI, not just the IDE
- The unified platform and its release cadence; the SDK and CLI; project and solution structure
- The type system; records and pattern matching; nullable reference types; LINQ properly
- async/await and the task model; the recent language features that shorten everyday code
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A refactor of a tangled codebase into C# a reviewer doesn't have to untangle — abstractions that earn their keep, composition over inheritance, exceptions designed rather than sprinkled
- Interfaces and abstraction that earn their keep; SOLID applied rather than recited
- Composition over inheritance; generics and collections
- Exception design; reviewable C#
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- A configured web application with custom middleware, a hosted background service — and a lab reproducing the classic DI-lifetime bug (a scoped service captured by a singleton) before fixing it
- The hosting model and request pipeline; middleware
- Dependency injection and service lifetimes — the most common source of subtle production bugs
- Configuration and options; environments; logging; hosted background services
Estimated Time: 10 Hours
You ship:- A minimal API service with validation, OpenAPI docs, versioning and problem-details errors — plus a SignalR real-time feature with presence and reconnection — and a written minimal-vs-controllers choice
- Minimal APIs and controller-based APIs side by side — guidance on choosing; model binding and validation
- REST design; versioning; OpenAPI documentation; error handling and problem details; pagination and filtering; file uploads
- Server-sent events; real-time communication with SignalR
Estimated Time: 10 Hours
You ship:- The query optimisation workshop: N+1 and whole-table-in-memory problems found and fixed with profiler evidence — plus a zero-downtime production migration pattern executed end to end
- Modelling and relationships; migrations including production and zero-downtime patterns; change tracking and why it surprises people
- Eager versus lazy loading and eliminating N+1 queries; projections; bulk operations without loading entities; raw SQL escape hatches
- Transactions; concurrency handling; reading generated SQL
Estimated Time: 10 Hours
You ship:- A Blazor application deliberately exercising multiple render modes — with a written rationale per component, state persisted across the prerender boundary, and a diagnosis lab on where the code actually executes
- Razor components, parameters, lifecycle and rendering; forms and validation; state management; JavaScript interop kept minimal; component libraries
- Render modes as a per-component decision: static server, streaming, interactive server, interactive WebAssembly, automatic
- Prerendering and state persistence across the boundary; diagnosing where your code is actually executing
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- A secured multi-tenant application: Identity plus an external provider, policy-based authorisation, modern credentials, hardened headers — checked against the OWASP risks with .NET-specific fixes
- ASP.NET Core Identity; cookie and token authentication; OAuth2 and OpenID Connect; external identity providers and Entra ID; passkeys and modern credentials
- Role and policy-based authorisation; multi-tenancy
- Secrets management; HTTPS and headers; the OWASP risks with their .NET-specific fixes
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- A modular monolith with clean module boundaries and a vertical-slice feature — plus a written when-microservices-actually-win analysis for the same system
- Layering, clean architecture and vertical slices; the modular monolith as the sensible default; domain modelling
- CQRS and mediator patterns used judiciously; repository and unit-of-work debates settled pragmatically
- When microservices genuinely become the right answer — organisational scale, not fashion
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A fully tested feature slice — xUnit units, integration tests on the in-memory host, database tests in containers, Blazor component tests, and Playwright end-to-end — gated in CI
- Unit testing with xUnit; mocking and test doubles; integration testing with the in-memory test host
- Database testing with containers; testing Blazor components; end-to-end coverage with Playwright
- Coverage that means something; static analysis and linting in CI
Estimated Time: 10 Hours
You ship:- A multi-service solution orchestrated with .NET Aspire — service discovery, configuration, health checks, resilience policies and distributed tracing across the whole thing
- Containerising .NET properly; container images without hand-written Dockerfiles
- .NET Aspire for orchestration, service discovery, configuration and telemetry across a multi-service solution
- Health checks; resilience and retry policies; caching; message-based communication; distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A slow endpoint diagnosed and fixed with profiler and allocation evidence — plus a Native AOT build compared honestly on startup, memory and container size against its constraints
- Profiling and diagnostics; memory and allocation; async pitfalls and deadlocks
- Response caching and output caching; Native AOT and startup cost — when ahead-of-time compilation is worth its constraints
- Load testing; structured logging; error tracking; diagnosing with evidence rather than guesswork
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- The legacy modernisation exercise — an older .NET Framework codebase assessed with a migration plan produced — and your capstone: one production-grade full-stack application, deployed, monitored and defended
- CI/CD pipelines; deployment to cloud platforms and containers; configuration and secrets across environments; database migration strategy under real traffic; blue/green and canary releases
- The legacy modernisation track: .NET Framework to modern .NET, and how to plan it
- Capstone design, build, deploy and defense
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