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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)

View Components

So far, you have seen two ways of creating reusable components to provide better maintenance and reduce the amount of code and that is tag helpers and partial pages. While a tag helper produces mainly static HTML code (as it translates a custom tag into an existing HTML tag with some content inside it), a partial page is a small Razor page inside another Razor page that shares the page data-binding mechanism and can perform some actions such as form submission. The only downside to partial pages is that the dynamic behavior relies on the page that contains it.

This section is about another tool that allows you to create reusable components that is, view components. View components are somewhat similar to partial pages, as they also allow you to provide dynamic functionality and have logic on the backend. However, they are even more powerful as they are self-contained. This self-containment allows them to be developed independently of the page and be fully testable...