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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

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 9,999

month