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Apps and Services with .NET 7

By : Mark J. Price
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Apps and Services with .NET 7

By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

Apps and Services with .NET 7 is for .NET 6 and .NET 7 developers who want to kick their C# and .NET understanding up a gear by learning the practical skills and knowledge they need to build real-world applications and services. It covers specialized libraries that will help you monitor and improve performance, secure your data and applications, and internationalize your code and apps. With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, OData, gRPC, GraphQL, SignalR, and Azure Functions, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. It covers the latest developments, libraries, and technologies that will help keep you up to date. You’ll also leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android as well as desktop apps for Windows and macOS.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Where to go 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 build command, enter the following at the command line or in the Visual Studio Code terminal:
    dotnet help build
    
  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 App (C#)
    Author: Microsoft
    Description: A project for creating a command-line application that can run on .NET on Windows, Linux and...