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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

Working with text and numbers using Humanizer

Humanizer manipulates text in string values, names of enum values, dates, times, numbers, and quantities.

Working with text

The built-in string type has methods to manipulate text like Substring and Trim. But there are plenty of other common manipulations that we might want to perform on text. For example:

  • You might have an ugly string generated by some code and you want to make it look friendlier to display to a user. This is common with enum types that cannot use spaces in multi-word values.
  • You might build a web content management system, and when a user enters an article title, you need to convert what they enter into a format suitable for a URL path.
  • You might have a long string value that needs to be truncated to show in the limited space of a mobile user interface.

Humanizer case transformations

Complex transformations can be performed in sequence by passing multiple Humanizer transformations...