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.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By : Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma
Book Image

.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By: Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma

Overview of this book

With the rise in the number of tools and technologies available today, developers and architects are always exploring ways to create better and smarter solutions. Before, the differences between target platforms was a major roadblock, but that's not the case now. .NET Core 2.0 By Example will take you on an exciting journey to building better software. This book provides fresh and relevant content to .NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that’s enjoyable to read. It also delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems, in a logical and simple way. With the .NET framework at its center, the book comprises of five varied projects: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application. You will start each chapter with a high-level overview of the content, followed by the above example applications described in detail. By the end of each chapter, you will not only be proficient with the concepts, but you’ll also have created a tangible component in the application. By the end of the book, you will have built five solid projects using all the tools and support provided by the .NET Core 2.0 framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Getting started with Azure


Microsoft Azure (formerly called Windows Azure) is the cloud service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing web applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. All the examples in this book are developed in a virtual machine (VM) hosted in Azure. Since we also needed a Linux VM to demonstrate ASP.NET Core 2.0 cross-platform support, the Linux VM is also created and hosted in Azure. This is the best example to demonstrate how flexible and easy it is for developers to embrace and use Azure.

An obvious question that may come to your mind is: why use Azure and not Amazon's AWS or Google Cloud? Fair enough, I am completely biased on this one and I strongly believe Microsoft Azure is way ahead of its competitors in numerous parameters...