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C# Programming Cookbook

By : Dirk Strauss
Book Image

C# Programming Cookbook

By: Dirk Strauss

Overview of this book

During your application development workflow, there is always a moment when you need to get out of a tight spot. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming problems and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start with C# 6, giving you hands-on experience with the new language features. Next, we work through the tasks that you perform on a daily basis such as working with strings, generics, and lots more. Gradually, we move on to more advanced topics such as the concept of object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, reactive extensions, and code contracts. You will learn responsive high performance programming in C# and how to create applications with Azure. Next, we will review the choices available when choosing a source control solution. At the end of the book, we will show you how to create secure and robust code, and will help you ramp up your skills when using the new version of C# 6 and Visual Studio
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C# Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a Service Fabric application with a stateless actor service


As part of the introduction to this chapter, we looked at the difference between stateful and stateless microservices. The Service Fabric application templates available are then further divided into Reliable Services (stateful/stateless) and Reliable Actors (stateful/stateless). When to use which one is something that will depend on the specific business requirement of your application.

To put it simply though, if you wanted to create a service that should be exposed to many users of your application at any one time, a Reliable Service would probably be a good fit. Think of a service exposing the latest exchange rates that can be consumed by many users or applications at once.

Again, looking back to the introduction of this chapter, we used the example of an online web store with a shopping cart. A Reliable Actor could be a good fit for every customer buying items, so you could have a shopping cart actor. The Reliable Actor...