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.NET is a Smorgasboard?
Like many other .NET devs I often find myself expecting to be current in all of the existing and up-coming tools/technologies in the Microsoft/.NET platform. Frankly, I don't know how that is possible, especially with the pace at which MSFT (not to mention the surrounding ecosystem) is releasing tools and platforms. Over the past few years, my approach has been to know "enough" about the various tools/technologies so that I can be conversant, and also know when a particular toolset applies to my current project, thereby warranting a "deeper" dive into that area. Such has been the case for me with WPF and WCF (much of my work over the past while has been in the SharePoint/web space meaning WPF - until SilverLight - didn't have much of a play and we hadn't yet seen a need to switch from standard ASMX for our services). They fell into the bucket of tools I had seen while walking along the smorgasboard, but I simply hadn't decided I needed to consume them yet.