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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)

Introduction

In Chapter 1, Hello C#, you learned that .NET is what brings C# to life, as it contains both a Software Development Kit (SDK) used to build your code and a runtime that executes the code. In this chapter, you will learn about ASP.NET, which is an open-source and cross-platform framework embedded within the .NET runtime. It is used for building applications for both frontend and backend applications for web, mobile, and IoT devices.

It is a complete toolbox for these kinds of development, as it provides several built-in features, such as lightweight and customizable HTTP pipelines, dependency injection, and support for modern hosting technologies, such as containers, web UI pages, routing, and APIs. A well-known example is Stack Overflow; its architecture is built entirely on top of ASP.NET.

The focus of this chapter is to acquaint you with the fundamentals of ASP.NET and to give you both an introduction and an end-to-end overview of web application development with...