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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

Working with dates and times

After numbers and text, the next most popular types of data to work with are dates and times. The two main types are as follows:

  • DateTime: represents a combined date and time value for a fixed point in time.
  • TimeSpan: represents a duration of time.

These two types are often used together. For example, if you subtract one DateTime value from another, the result is a TimeSpan. If you add a TimeSpan to a DateTime then the result is a DateTime value.

Specifying date and time values

A common way to create a date and time value is to specify individual values for the date and time components like day and hour, as described in the following table:

Date/time parameter

Value range

year

1 to 9999

...