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C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Fourth Edition

By : Mark J. Price
Book Image

C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Fourth Edition

By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

In C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fourth Edition, expert teacher Mark J. Price gives you everything you need to start programming C# applications. This latest edition uses the popular Visual Studio Code editor to work across all major operating systems. It is fully updated and expanded with new chapters on Content Management Systems (CMS) and machine learning with ML.NET. The book covers all the topics you need. Part 1 teaches the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming, and new C# 8.0 features such as nullable reference types, simplified switch pattern matching, and default interface methods. Part 2 covers the .NET Standard APIs, such as managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, working with the filesystem, async streams, serialization, and encryption. Part 3 provides examples of cross-platform applications you can build and deploy, such as web apps using ASP.NET Core or mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. The book introduces three technologies for building Windows desktop applications including Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, as well as web applications, web services, and mobile apps.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Exploring an ASP.NET Core MVC website

Let's walk through the parts that make up a modern ASP.NET Core MVC website.

Understanding ASP.NET Core MVC startup

Appropriately enough, we will start by exploring the MVC website's default startup configuration.

  1. Open the Startup.cs file.
  2. Note that the ConfigureServices method adds an application database context using SQLite with its database connection string loaded from the appsettings.json file for its data storage, adds ASP.NET Identity for authentication and configures it to use the application database, and adds support for MVC controllers with views as well as Razor Pages, as shown in the following code:
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
      services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options => 
        options.UseSqlite(
          Configuration
          .GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
      services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>(options =>
          options...