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The C# Workshop

By : Jason Hales, Almantas Karpavicius, Mateus Viegas
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Book Image

The C# Workshop

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By: Jason Hales, Almantas Karpavicius, Mateus Viegas

Overview of this book

C# is a powerful, versatile language that can unlock a variety of career paths. But, as with any programming language, learning C# can be a challenging process. With a wide range of different resources available, it’s difficult to know where to start. That's where The C# Workshop comes in. Written and reviewed by industry experts, it provides a fast-paced, supportive learning experience that will quickly get you writing C# code and building applications. Unlike other software development books that focus on dry, technical explanations of the underlying theory, this Workshop cuts through the noise and uses engaging examples to help you understand how each concept is applied in the real world. As you work through the book, you'll tackle realistic exercises that simulate the type of problems that software developers work on every day. These mini-projects include building a random-number guessing game, using the publisher-subscriber model to design a web file downloader, creating a to-do list using Razor Pages, generating images from the Fibonacci sequence using async/await tasks, and developing a temperature unit conversion app which you will then deploy to a production server. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance your career and tackle your own ambitious projects with C#.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Running and Developing C# with the .NET CLI

One term you'll hear a lot in the C# world is .NET. It is the foundation of C#, a framework that the language is built on top of. It has both a Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows the language to be developed and a runtime that allows the language to run.

That said, to start developing with C#, you only need to install the .NET SDK. This installation will provide both a compiler and the runtime on the development environment. In this section, you will cover the basic steps of preparing your environment for developing and running C# locally.

Note

Please refer to the Preface of this book for step-by-step instructions on how to download the .NET 6.0 SDK and install it on your machine.

Once the installation of the .NET 6.0 SDK is completed, you will have something called the .NET CLI. This Command-Line Interface (CLI) allows you to create new projects, compile them, and run them with very simple commands that you can run...