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Adopting .NET 5

By : Hammad Arif, Habib Qureshi
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Adopting .NET 5

By: Hammad Arif, Habib Qureshi

Overview of this book

.NET 5 is the unification of all .NET technologies in a single framework that can run on all platforms and provide a consistent experience to developers, regardless of the device, operating system (OS), or cloud platform they choose. By updating to .NET 5, you can build software that can quickly adapt to the rapidly changing demands of modern consumers and stay up to date on the latest technology trends in .NET. This book provides a comprehensive overview of all the technologies that will form the future landscape of .NET using practical examples based on real-world scenarios, along with best practices to help you migrate from legacy platforms. You’ll start by learning about Microsoft’s vision and rationale for the unification of the platforms. Then, you’ll cover all the new language enhancements in C# 9. As you advance, you’ll find out how you can align yourself with modern technology trends, focusing on everything from microservices to orchestrated containerized deployments. Finally, you’ll learn how to effectively integrate machine learning in .NET code. By the end of this .NET book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of the .NET 5 platform, together with a readiness to adapt to future .NET release cycles, and you’ll be able to make architectural decisions about porting legacy systems and code bases to a newer platform.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Features and Capabilities
4
Section 2: Design and Architecture
7
Section 3: Migration
10
Section 4: Bonus

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the full machine learning-based .NET application workflow. We equipped ourselves with the requisite knowledge of machine learning terminologies that are commonly used in machine learning documentation all over the web.

We then learned how the ML.NET API and ML.NET Model Builder can help us quickly build applications by taking advantage of comprehensive algorithms, as well as using a model building library provided by ML.NET that supports the entire ML workflow.

After that, we built couple of sample .NET applications using the regression and binary classification algorithms. Then, we learned how in a real-world application, these machine learning services could be hosted as Azure Functions to be consumed by larger .NET applications. These skills will not only help you build smart applications that use ML services, but also integrate with data models that have been developed by other data scientists within and outside your organization...