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Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8 - Fourth Edition

By : Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese
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Book Image

Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8 - Fourth Edition

3.5 (2)
By: Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese

Overview of this book

Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8 puts high-level design theory to work in a .NET context, teaching you the key skills, technologies, and best practices required to become an effective .NET software architect. This fourth edition puts emphasis on a case study that will bring your skills to life. You’ll learn how to choose between different architectures and technologies at each level of the stack. You’ll take an even closer look at Blazor and explore OpenTelemetry for observability, as well as a more practical dive into preparing .NET microservices for Kubernetes integration. Divided into three parts, this book starts with the fundamentals of software architecture, covering C# best practices, software domains, design patterns, DevOps principles for CI/CD, and more. The second part focuses on the technologies, from choosing data storage in the cloud to implementing frontend microservices and working with Serverless. You’ll learn about the main communication technologies used in microservices, such as REST API, gRPC, Azure Service Bus, and RabbitMQ. The final part takes you through a real-world case study where you’ll create software architecture for a travel agency. By the end of this book, you will be able to transform user requirements into technical needs and deliver highly scalable enterprise software architectures.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Answers
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Index

Understanding ORM basics

ORMs map relational DB tables into in-memory collections of objects where object properties correspond to DB table columns. Types from C#, such as Booleans, numeric types, and strings, have corresponding DB types. If GUIDs are not available in the mapped DB, then types such as GUIDs are mapped to their equivalent string representations. All date and time types are mapped either to C# DateTime when the date/time contains no time zone information, to DateTimeOffset when the date/time also contains explicit time zone information, to DateOnly when the type contains just date information, or to TimeOnly when the type contains just time information. Any DB time duration is mapped to a TimeSpan. Finally, single characters should not be mapped at all to DB fields.

Since the string properties of most object-oriented languages have no length limits associated with them (while DB string fields usually have length limits), the DB limits are taken into account in the...