“Hello .NET-World”

If you are new to .NET you might first want get acquainted with the the platform. And a good way to do this is to meet the people in this space which drive this platform forward and are welcoming to new faces.

Here is a small list of people you can follow, but be aware: there are many more of them out there 🙂

People To Follow

Scott Hanselman

Curious, funny and caring human being, showing the world what’s cool about .NET and stuff. Partner Program Manager at Microsoft.
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David Fowler

Creator of the wonderful ASP.NET Core architecture and savior of all those tormented by its predecessor ASP.NET (including Web Forms). Also creator of SignalR, a simple realtime-messaging framework ontop of Web-Sockets (or whatever is available). Partner Software Architect at Microsoft.
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Michal Strehovský

Bringing .NET to places where noone ever been before, like running .NET on MS DOS and Windows 3.1. Also a .NET AOT pioneer and guru.
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Steve Sanderson

Mastermind and creator of Blazor. Upgraded .NET developers to real SPA developers. Previously known for Knockoutjs. Architect at Microsoft.
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Safia Abdalla

Generator of ASP.NET Core Razor source generators. Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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Immo Landwerth

Guardian of the clean .NET API-surface. Teaches you how to implement you own .NET language with his easy to follow YouTube series. Provider of Dad Jokes. Program Manager for .NET at Microsoft.
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Miguel de Icaza

Father of Mono, Xamarin – and Gnome. Brought .NET to the world outside of Microsoft long before Microsoft itself decided that this would be cool.
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David Ortinau

Captain of Xamarin.Forms/MAUI. Pricipal Program Manager at Microsoft.
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Maddy Leger

Ensures .NET MAUI will be great! Program Manager at Microsoft.
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James Monemagno

Unveils to you what you can do with .NET on mobile devices like iOS and Android.
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Mihhail Maslakov

Pioneer in .NET Hot-Reload land with his visionary products LiveXAML and LiveSharp.
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