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Apps and Services with .NET 8

Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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Apps and Services with .NET 8

Apps and Services with .NET 8

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By: Mark J. Price
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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. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Where to find the code solutions
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
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Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
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Introducing this book and its contents
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App and service technologies
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Setting up your development environment
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Installing additional template packs
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Exploring top-level programs, functions, and namespaces
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Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
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Where to go for help
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server
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Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server
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Understanding modern databases
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Managing data with Transact-SQL
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Managing data with low-level APIs
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Managing data with Dapper
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Cleaning up data resources
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core
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Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core
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Managing data with EF Core
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Mapping inheritance hierarchies with EF Core
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Building a reusable entity data model
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB
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Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB
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Understanding NoSQL databases
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Creating Cosmos DB resources
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Manipulating data with the Core (SQL) API
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Exploring server-side programming
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Cleaning up Azure resources
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Multitasking and Concurrency
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Multitasking and Concurrency
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Understanding processes, threads, and tasks
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Running tasks asynchronously
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Synchronizing access to shared resources
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Understanding async and await
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Using Popular Third-Party Libraries
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Using Popular Third-Party Libraries
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Which third-party libraries are most popular?
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Working with images
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Working with text and numbers using Humanizer
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Logging with Serilog
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Mapping between objects
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Making fluent assertions in unit testing
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Validating data
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Generating PDFs
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Practicing and exploring
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Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
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Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
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Working with dates and times
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Working with time zones
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Working with cultures
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Working with Noda Time
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Practicing and exploring
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Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs
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Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs
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Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
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Relaxing the same origin security policy using CORS
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Preventing denial of service attacks using rate limiting
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Improving startup time and resources using native AOT
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Understanding identity services
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Practicing and exploring
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Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services
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Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services
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Understanding service architecture
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Caching with ASP.NET Core
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Fault tolerance with Polly
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Queuing with RabbitMQ
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Implementing long-running background services
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions
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Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions
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Understanding Azure Functions
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Building an Azure Functions project
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Responding to timer and resource triggers
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Publishing an Azure Functions project to the cloud
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Cleaning up Azure Functions resources
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
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Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
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Understanding SignalR
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Building a live communication service using SignalR
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Building a web client using the SignalR JavaScript library
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Building a .NET console app client
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Streaming data using SignalR
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
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Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
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Understanding GraphQL
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Building a service that supports GraphQL
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Defining GraphQL queries for EF Core models
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Building .NET clients for a GraphQL service
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Implementing GraphQL mutations
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Implementing GraphQL subscriptions
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
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Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
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Understanding gRPC
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Building a gRPC service and client
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Implementing gRPC for an EF Core model
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Taking gRPC further
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Handling dates, times, and decimal numbers
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Implementing interceptors and handling faults
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Implementing gRPC JSON transcoding
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core
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Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core
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Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website
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Defining web user interfaces with Razor views
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Localizing and globalizing with ASP.NET Core
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Defining web user interfaces with Tag Helpers
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Output caching
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Web Components Using Blazor
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Building Web Components Using Blazor
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Understanding Blazor
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Building Blazor components
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Building a Blazor data component
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI
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Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI
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Understanding XAML
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Understanding .NET MAUI
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Building mobile and desktop apps using .NET MAUI
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Using shared resources
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Using data binding
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Practicing and exploring
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Epilogue
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Epilogue
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Cloud-native development using .NET Aspire
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Introducing the Survey Project Challenge
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Third edition coming in December 2025
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Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey
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Good luck!
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Building a Blazor data component

In this section, we will build a component that will list, create, and edit employees in the Northwind database.

We will build it over several steps:

  1. Make a Blazor component that renders the name of an employee, set as a parameter.
  2. Make it work as a routable page as well as a component.
  3. Build and call an ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs web service.
  4. Call the web service in the component.

Making the component

We will add the new component to the existing Blazor project:

  1. In the Northwind.Blazor project, in the Components\Pages folder, add a new file named Employees.razor.
  2. Add statements to output a heading for the Employees component and define a code block, defining a property to store the name of a country, as shown highlighted in the following markup: 
    @rendermode InteractiveServer
<h1>Employees @(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Country)
    ? "Worldwide" : "in " +...
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