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

By : Mark J. Price
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Book Image

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

5 (1)
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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Building Windows-only desktop apps

Technologies for building Windows-only desktop apps include:

  • Windows Forms, 2002.
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), 2006.
  • Windows Store apps, 2012.
  • Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, 2015.
  • Windows App SDK (formerly WinUI 3 and Project Reunion) apps, 2021.

Understanding legacy Windows application platforms

With the Microsoft Windows 1.0 release in 1985, the only way to create Windows applications was to use the C language and call functions in three core DLLs named kernel, user, and GDI. Once Windows became 32-bit with Windows 95, the DLLs were suffixed with 32 and became known as Win32 API.

In 1991, Microsoft introduced Visual Basic, which provided developers with a visual, drag-and-drop-from-a-toolbox-of-controls way to build the user interface for Windows applications. It was immensely popular, and the Visual Basic runtime is still distributed as part of Windows 10 today.

With the...