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Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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Book Image

Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

5 (7)
By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

Elevate your practical C# and .NET skills to the next level with this new edition of Apps and Services with .NET 8. With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. You’ll dive into the new unified model for Blazor Full Stack and leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile and desktop apps. This new edition introduces the latest enhancements, including the seamless implementation of web services with ADO.NET SqlClient's native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) support. Popular library coverage now includes Humanizer and Noda Time. There’s also a brand-new chapter that delves into service architecture, caching, queuing, and robust background services. By the end of this book, you’ll have a wide range of best practices and deep insights under your belt to help you build rich apps and efficient services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you:

  • Learned about some concepts of gRPC services, how they work, and their benefits.
  • Implemented a simple gRPC service.
  • Implemented a gRPC service that uses an EF Core model that cannot yet use AOT publish.
  • Implemented a gRPC service that uses SqlClient libraries that can use AOT publish and are therefore smaller and faster.
  • Learned how to set deadlines and read metadata sent as headers and trailers.
  • Implemented a custom decimal type and used extended date/time types.
  • Implemented a client-side interceptor.
  • Extended a gRPC service with support for being called as an HTTP service with JSON, to support clients that cannot work with gRPC natively.

In the next chapter, you will review how to build website user interfaces using ASP.NET Core MVC.