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C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Seventh Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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Book Image

C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Seventh Edition

4.2 (5)
By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

Extensively revised to accommodate the latest features that come with C# 11 and .NET 7, this latest edition of our guide will get you coding in C# with confidence. You’ll learn object-oriented programming, writing, testing, and debugging functions, implementing interfaces, and inheriting classes. Next, you’ll take on .NET APIs for performing tasks like managing and querying data, working with the filesystem, and serialization. As you progress, you’ll also explore examples of cross-platform projects you can build and deploy, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core. Instead of distracting you with unnecessary graphical user interface code, the first eleven chapters will teach you about C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries through simple console applications. Having mastered the basics, you’ll then start building websites, web services, and browser apps. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create rich web experiences and have a solid grasp of object-oriented programming that you can build upon.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Using Razor class libraries

Everything related to a Razor Page can be compiled into a class library for easier reuse in multiple projects. With ASP.NET Core 3.0 and later, this can include static files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript libraries, and media assets such as image files. A website can either use the Razor Page’s view as defined in the class library or override it.

Disabling compact folders for Visual Studio Code

Before we implement our Razor class library, I want to explain a Visual Studio Code feature that confused some readers of a previous edition because the feature was added after publishing.

The compact folders feature means that nested folders such as /Areas/MyFeature/Pages/ are shown in a compact form if the intermediate folders in the hierarchy do not contain files, as shown in Figure 13.8:

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Figure 13.8: Compact folders enabled or disabled

If you would like to disable the Visual Studio Code compact folders feature, complete the following...