Hi all,

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I have tried a quick search in this forum but could not find something relevant to my question so here I am. Apologies in advance if this's been asked before.

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So I am a .net mvc developer with over 5 years of experience. I got so used and comfortable in my current job that I kinda stopped improving myself beyond what's required to do my job at this company.

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I would like to improve myself and be a better programmer. So here is what I know:

• ASP.NET Web Forms: I have used that for 3 years (the first 3 years of my professional life, not currently)
• ASP.NET MVC: This is what I am mainly using these days.
• ASP.NET CORE: I have not used this yet.
• Angular: Very basic knowledge
• VUE.JS: I have not used this yet.
• React.JS: I have not used this yet.

So what I would like to do is improve myself to keep my skills relevant in today's workplace (I live in the UK but it shouldn't matter that much)

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I would like to be more advanced so that I would feel comfortable taking on a senior role in the near future.

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Here is what I want:

• Any advance learning material for .NET/ASP.NET/MVC/CORE etc. Most books I find are geared towards beginners.
• Any good books on software architecture (like layers, how to think about layering a project, decoupling, dependency injection, etc) that are relevant today because I feel like most of software design principles might not be as relevant today because of advancement in technology. For example, Repository Layer is somewhat obsolete with Entity Framework or Dapper.
• Any other books that you think is a must read for me.
• I have not used TDD (both companies I've worked for never really saw the value in it so I never bothered learning it)

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I hope I have provided enough information for what I want.