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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 and Consuming Web Services

This chapter is about learning how to build web services (aka HTTP or REST services) using the ASP.NET Core Web API and consuming web services using HTTP clients that could be any other type of .NET app, including a website or a mobile or desktop app.

This chapter requires knowledge and skills that you learned in Chapter 10, Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core, and Chapters 13 to 15, about practical applications of C# and .NET and building websites using ASP.NET Core.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • 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