When I look at the 3rd party tools out there for .Net development it seems like everything started over in the Java community. Unit testing, ORM platforms, IoC, automated builds, mocking, basically all the good stuff that I'm trying to master. As they came over to the .Net space other projects have sprung up offering alternatives, in some cases better suited to the specifics of .Net, but many of the tools ported from Java are still considered to be great pieces of code.
To try and build a skill set that is as flexible as possible, my intention is to try and find tools that have Java counterparts wherever possible so that I could slip into Java more easily if I ever find myself in that situation. Obviously the general skills are going to be more important than the specific tools used for the job, so if I find myself having to use a different testing framework or IoC container there won't be much of a learning curve.
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