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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

Overview of this book

Mastering C# and .NET Framework will take you in to the depths of C# 6.0/7.0 and .NET 4.6, so you can understand how the platform works when it runs your code, and how you can use this knowledge to write efficient applications. Take full advantage of the new revolution in .NET development, including open source status and cross-platform capability, and get to grips with the architectural changes of CoreCLR. Start with how the CLR executes code, and discover the niche and advanced aspects of C# programming – from delegates and generics, through to asynchronous programming. Run through new forms of type declarations and assignments, source code callers, static using syntax, auto-property initializers, dictionary initializers, null conditional operators, and many others. Then unlock the true potential of the .NET platform. Learn how to write OWASP-compliant applications, how to properly implement design patterns in C#, and how to follow the general SOLID principles and its implementations in C# code. We finish by focusing on tips and tricks that you'll need to get the most from C# and .NET. This book also covers .NET Core 1.1 concepts as per the latest RTM release in the last chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering C# and .NET Framework
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data access in Visual Studio


Using Visual Studio, you can create applications that connect to any kind of data, covering practically any database product or service in any format and anywhere: either from a local machine, LAN server, or located in the cloud.

The IDE enables you to explore data sources or create object models to store and manipulate data in the memory, and—of course—establish data-binding techniques in the user interface, no matter what type of UI you want: Console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, websites created with ASP.NET, and so on.

Besides, Microsoft Azure provides SDKs for .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, mobile apps, and tools in Visual Studio in order to connect to Azure Storage.

The following table shows you the variety of database connections available in recent versions of the IDE:

Microsoft Azure (SQL and NoSQL)

SQL Database (Azure)

Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files)

SQL Data Warehouse (Azure)

SQL Server Stretch Database (Azure...