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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 doing deeper research into the topics in this chapter.

Exercise 5.1 – Test your knowledge

Use the web to answer the following questions:

  1. What is the most downloaded third-party NuGet package of all time?
  2. What method do you call on the ImageSharp Image class to make a change like resizing the image or replacing colors with grayscale?
  3. What is a key benefit of using Serilog for logging?
  4. What is a Serilog sink?
  5. Should you always use a package like AutoMapper to map between objects?
  6. Which FluentAssertions method should you call to start a fluent assertion on a value?
  7. Which FluentAssertions method should you call to assert that all items in a sequence conform to a condition, like a string item must have less than six characters?
  8. Which FluentValidation class should you inherit from to define a custom...