Having just come into a .NET shop in the last couple months, having spent much time with Spring / Java the documentation and clarity of what to use is troublesome. I really expected Microsoft to have great documentation, but sadly I’ve not found it great.

So far I’ve done some WCF SOAP work, and an ASP.NET MVC 5 application. Figuring out what the latest frameworks and tools is a bit of legwork. Things aren’t always clear, and not always well integrated.

Figuring out authentication was not clear, whether to use Membership, Identity, where OWIN fit into the picture. If you need custom authentication finding details is hard. Ultimately I figured it out, but it’s clear as mud from a fresh eyes standpoint.

Then setting up DI, which container? Well I had Core DI available, figured that would be a good choice. Except I have to write a good bit of glue code to make it work.

I’m definitely enjoying C# as a language and the standard library. But the ecosystem is a bit clunky.