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Apps and Services with .NET 7

By : Mark J. Price
Book Image

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

Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 4.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. What information can you find out about a process?
  2. How accurate is the Stopwatch class?
  3. By convention, what suffix should be applied to a method that returns Task or Task<T>?
  4. To use the await keyword inside a method, what keyword must be applied to the method declaration?
  5. How do you create a child task?
  6. Why should you avoid the lock keyword?
  7. When should you use the Interlocked class?
  8. When should you use the Mutex class instead of the Monitor class?
  9. What is the benefit of using async and await in a website or web service?
  10. Can you cancel a task? If so, how?

Exercise 4.2 – Explore topics

Use the links on the following GitHub page...