Hire .NET developers to build and scale your software.

There is no single rate for .NET developers. Cost depends on the seniority you need, the engagement model you choose (adding developers to your team, a dedicated team, or a fixed-price project), how long the engagement runs and the scope of the work. For .NET work, the biggest drivers are how many Windows-only dependencies such as WCF or Web Forms an existing application relies on, the size and state of the SQL Server database, and whether hosting is moving to Azure or containers at the same time. Share your requirements and we will come back with a quote for your situation.

You tell us the technology, seniority, role and team structure you need. We recommend .NET developer profiles that match those requirements, and you review the profiles and speak with the engineers yourself before anyone joins your team. When you interview, the areas worth testing are assessing a .NET Framework codebase for migration blockers; dependency injection lifetimes: singleton, scoped and transient; eF Core query translation, tracking and migrations; async/await pitfalls such as sync-over-async and deadlocks; authentication with ASP.NET Core Identity or Microsoft Entra ID; and integration testing with WebApplicationFactory and xUnit.

It depends on which engineers with the right skills are available when you get in touch, so we do not publish a fixed start date. Availability is part of the conversation when we recommend profiles, and the start date is agreed with you before the engagement begins.

Because you interview the engineers before anyone joins, fit is tested before work starts. If concerns come up once the engagement is running, raise them with us directly. How changes to the team are handled is set out in the terms you agree with us at the start.

A freelancer suits small, well-defined tasks you can manage yourself. A dedicated developer joins your team under your direction. A dedicated team adds several roles around your product, and a project-based team delivers a defined outcome end to end.

Start with an inventory: project types, NuGet packages and Windows-only APIs such as WCF servers, Web Forms or System.Web. Class libraries are usually retargeted first, often via .NET Standard, then applications are moved to ASP.NET Core. Large systems can run old and new side by side behind a proxy while routes move gradually.

ASP.NET Core is cross-platform, open source and considerably faster, with dependency injection, configuration and logging built in rather than bolted on. It runs in Linux containers, supports minimal APIs for lean services alongside MVC controllers, and receives ongoing feature and security updates that classic ASP.NET on .NET Framework no longer gets.

By watching the SQL it generates. Read-only queries use AsNoTracking, projections select only the needed columns, related data is loaded deliberately rather than through lazy loading, and split queries avoid cartesian explosions. For bulk updates, ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteDelete skip change tracking, and hot paths can drop to raw SQL or Dapper.

Common choices are Azure App Service or Container Apps for hosting, Azure SQL for relational data, Service Bus for messaging, Key Vault for secrets and Application Insights for monitoring. Infrastructure is defined in Bicep or Terraform so environments are reproducible rather than configured by hand in the portal.

Blazor suits internal tools and line-of-business portals where the team is strongest in C# and wants to share models and validation with the backend. For public, SEO-sensitive or highly interactive consumer products, a JavaScript framework such as React or Angular is often the more practical choice.

For most business systems, yes. Microsoft ships a new .NET version every year, alternating between long-term support and shorter standard-term support releases. Staying on LTS reduces upgrade frequency, while planning each move ahead of the end-of-support date avoids running unpatched software.

Yes. Modern .NET is fully cross-platform, and ASP.NET Core applications run well in Linux containers on Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps or AWS. Moving off Windows servers can reduce licensing and operational overhead, though applications tied to Windows-only APIs need those dependencies replaced first.