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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you saw how the IEnumerable and ICollection interfaces form the basis of .NET data structures, and how they can be used to store multiple items. You created different types of collections depending on how each collection is meant to be used. You learned that the List collection is most extensively used to store collections of items, particularly if the number of elements is not known at compile time. You saw that the Stack and Queue types allow the order of items to be handled in a controlled manner, and how the HashSet offers set-based processing, while the Dictionary stores unique values using a key identifier.

You then further explored data structures by using LINQ Query Expressions and Query Operators to apply queries to data, showing how queries can be altered at runtime depending on filtering requirements. You sorted and partitioned data and saw how similar operations can be achieved using both Query Operators and Query Expressions, each offering a...