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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 reflection and attributes

Reflection is a programming feature that allows code to understand and manipulate itself. An assembly is made up of up to four parts:

  • Assembly metadata and manifest: Name, assembly, and file version, referenced assemblies, and so on.
  • Type metadata: Information about the types, their members, and so on.
  • IL code: Implementation of methods, properties, constructors, and so on.
  • Embedded resources (optional): Images, strings, JavaScript, and so on.

The metadata comprises items of information about your code. The metadata is generated automatically from your code (for example, information about the types and members) or applied to your code using attributes.

Attributes can be applied at multiple levels: to assemblies, to types, and to their members, as shown in the following code:

// an assembly-level attribute
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("Working with Reflection")]
// a type-level attribute
[Serializable...