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C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Fifth Edition

By : Mark J. Price
Book Image

C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Fifth Edition

By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

In C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fifth 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 a new chapter on the Microsoft Blazor framework. The book’s first part teaches the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming and new C# 9 features such as top-level programs, target-typed new object instantiation, and immutable types using the record keyword. Part 2 covers the .NET APIs, for performing tasks like managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, and working with the file system, async streams, serialization, and encryption. Part 3 provides examples of cross-platform apps you can build and deploy, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core or mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. The best type of application for learning the C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries is one that does not distract with unnecessary application code. For that reason, the C# and .NET topics covered in Chapters 1 to 13 feature console applications. In Chapters 14 to 20, having mastered the basics of the language and libraries, you will build practical applications using ASP.NET Core, Model-View-Controller (MVC), and Blazor. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the understanding and skills you need to use C# 9 and .NET 5 to create websites, services, and mobile apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

What's new in cryptography?

An automatic benefit of using .NET Core 3.0 or later is that algorithms for hashing, hash-based message authentication code (HMAC), random number generation, asymmetric signature generation and processing, and RSA encryption have been rewritten to use Span<T> so they achieve better performance. For example, Rfc2898DeriveBytes is about 15% faster.

Some enhancements have been made to the cryptography APIs that are useful in advanced scenarios, including:

  • Signing and verifying of CMS/PKCS #7 messages.
  • Enable X509Certificate.GetCertHash and X509Certificate.GetCertHashString to get certificate thumbprint values using algorithms other than SHA-1.
  • The CryptographicOperations class with useful methods like ZeroMemory to securely clear memory.
  • RandomNumberGenerator has a Fill method that will fill a span with random values and doesn't require you to manage an IDisposable resource.
  • APIs to read, validate, and...