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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

Writing better code

Now that you have learned the fundamentals of the C# language, let’s see some ways that you can write better code.

Treating warnings as errors

A simple yet effective way to write better code is to force yourself to fix compiler warnings. By default, warnings can be ignored. You can ask the compiler to prevent you from ignoring them.

Let’s review the default experience and then see how we can improve it:

  1. Use your preferred code editor to add a Console App/console project named WarningsAsErrors to the Chapter06 solution/workspace.
  2. In Program.cs, modify the existing statements to prompt the user to enter a name and then say hello to them, as shown highlighted in the following code:
    // See https://aka.ms/new-console-template for more information
    Console.Write("Enter a name: ");
    string name = Console.ReadLine();
    Console.WriteLine($"Hello, {name} has {name.Length} characters!");
    
  3. Build...