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C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Sixth Edition

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By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

Extensively revised to accommodate all the latest features that come with C# 10 and .NET 6, this latest edition of our comprehensive guide will get you coding in C# with confidence. You’ll learn object-oriented programming, writing, testing, and debugging functions, implementing interfaces, and inheriting classes. The book covers the .NET APIs for performing tasks like managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, and working with the filesystem, async streams, and serialization. You’ll build and deploy cross-platform apps, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core. Instead of distracting you with unnecessary application code, the first twelve chapters will teach you about C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries through simple console applications. In later chapters, having mastered the basics, you’ll then build practical applications and services using ASP.NET Core, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and Blazor.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
Preface
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What this book covers
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1
Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
Setting up your development environment
Understanding .NET
Building console apps using Visual Studio 2022
Building console apps using Visual Studio Code
Exploring code using .NET Interactive Notebooks
Reviewing the folders and files for projects
Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
Looking for help
Practicing and exploring
Summary
Free Chapter
2
Speaking C#
Speaking C#
Introducing the C# language
Understanding C# grammar and vocabulary
Working with variables
Exploring more about console applications
Practicing and exploring
Summary
3
Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
Operating on variables
Understanding selection statements
Understanding iteration statements
Casting and converting between types
Handling exceptions
Checking for overflow
Practicing and exploring
Summary
4
Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
Writing functions
Debugging during development
Logging during development and runtime
Unit testing
Throwing and catching exceptions in functions
Practicing and exploring
Summary
5
Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
Talking about OOP
Building class libraries
Storing data within fields
Storing multiple values using collections
Writing and calling methods
Controlling access with properties and indexers
Pattern matching with objects
Working with records
Practicing and exploring
Summary
6
Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
Setting up a class library and console application
More about methods
Raising and handling events
Making types safely reusable with generics
Implementing interfaces
Managing memory with reference and value types
Working with null values
Inheriting from classes
Casting within inheritance hierarchies
Inheriting and extending .NET types
Using an analyzer to write better code
Practicing and exploring
Summary
7
Packaging and Distributing .NET Types
Packaging and Distributing .NET Types
The road to .NET 6
Understanding .NET components
Publishing your code for deployment
Decompiling .NET assemblies
Packaging your libraries for NuGet distribution
Porting from .NET Framework to modern .NET
Working with preview features
Practicing and exploring
Summary
8
Working with Common .NET Types
Working with Common .NET Types
Working with numbers
Working with text
Working with dates and times
Pattern matching with regular expressions
Storing multiple objects in collections
Working with spans, indexes, and ranges
Working with network resources
Working with reflection and attributes
Working with images
Internationalizing your code
Practicing and exploring
Summary
9
Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
Managing the filesystem
Reading and writing with streams
Encoding and decoding text
Serializing object graphs
Controlling JSON processing
Practicing and exploring
Summary
10
Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
Understanding modern databases
Setting up EF Core
Defining EF Core models
Querying EF Core models
Loading patterns with EF Core
Manipulating data with EF Core
Working with transactions
Code First EF Core models
Practicing and exploring
Summary
11
Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
Writing LINQ expressions
Using LINQ with EF Core
Sweetening LINQ syntax with syntactic sugar
Using multiple threads with parallel LINQ
Creating your own LINQ extension methods
Working with LINQ to XML
Practicing and exploring
Summary
12
Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking
Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking
Understanding processes, threads, and tasks
Monitoring performance and resource usage
Running tasks asynchronously
Synchronizing access to shared resources
Understanding async and await
Practicing and exploring
Summary
13
Introducing Practical Applications of C# and .NET
Introducing Practical Applications of C# and .NET
Understanding app models for C# and .NET
New features in ASP.NET Core
Building Windows-only desktop apps
Structuring projects
Using other project templates
Building an entity data model for the Northwind database
Practicing and exploring
Summary
14
Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
Understanding web development
Understanding ASP.NET Core
Exploring ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
Using Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core
Using Razor class libraries
Configuring services and the HTTP request pipeline
Practicing and exploring
Summary
15
Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website
Exploring an ASP.NET Core MVC website
Customizing an ASP.NET Core MVC website
Querying a database and using display templates
Improving scalability using asynchronous tasks
Practicing and exploring
Summary
16
Building and Consuming Web Services
Building and Consuming Web Services
Building web services using ASP.NET Core Web API
Documenting and testing web services
Consuming web services using HTTP clients
Implementing advanced features for web services
Building web services using minimal APIs
Practicing and exploring
Summary
17
Building User Interfaces Using Blazor
Building User Interfaces Using Blazor
Understanding Blazor
Comparing Blazor project templates
Building components using Blazor Server
Abstracting a service for a Blazor component
Building components using Blazor WebAssembly
Improving Blazor WebAssembly apps
Practicing and exploring
Summary
18
Epilogue
Epilogue
Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey
.NET MAUI delayed
Next edition coming November 2022
Good luck!
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Index
Index

Looking for help

This section is all about how to find quality information about programming on the web.

Reading Microsoft documentation

The definitive resource for getting help with Microsoft developer tools and platforms is Microsoft Docs, and you can find it at the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/.

Getting help for the dotnet tool

At the command line, you can ask the dotnet tool for help with its commands:

  1. To open the official documentation in a browser window for the dotnet new command, enter the following at the command line or in the Visual Studio Code terminal: 
    dotnet help new
  2. To get help output at the command line, use the -h or --help flag, as shown in the following command: 
    dotnet new console -h
  3. You will see the following partial output: 
    Console Application (C#)
Author: Microsoft
Description: A project for creating a command-line application that can run on .NET Core on Windows, Linux...
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