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Apps and Services with .NET 10

Apps and Services with .NET 10 - Third Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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Apps and Services with .NET 10

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By: Mark J. Price
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Overview of this book

Building modern apps and services with C# and .NET isn’t just about knowing the syntax—it’s about knowing the right tools for the job. Whether you’re building for web, desktop, or mobile, the .NET ecosystem offers a vast range of technologies. But with so many choices, it’s easy to get stuck in a narrow skillset. Apps and Services with .NET 10 helps you build real-world experience across the breadth of what .NET has to offer. This edition covers practical implementations across a diverse set of technologies. You'll build APIs with ASP.NET Core Minimal API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR, and create user-facing applications using Blazor for the web, Avalonia for desktop, and .NET MAUI for mobile. You’ll also explore native AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation for high-performance web services, along with caching, messaging, and long-running background tasks. Each chapter provides hands-on projects and real-world context for when and why to use each tool. By the end, you’ll have a full-stack command of modern .NET. You’ll know how to select the right UI tech for your target platform, build APIs that scale, architect reliable backend services, and confidently adopt newer patterns. You won’t just understand the tools—you’ll know how to put them together to deliver robust, user-friendly, cross-platform apps in production environments. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
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Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
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Introducing this book and its contents
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App and service technologies
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Setting up your development environment
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Structuring projects and managing packages
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Building an entity model for use in the rest of the book
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Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
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Where to go for help
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Using future versions of .NET with this book
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Building Mobile Apps Using .NET MAUI
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Building Mobile Apps Using .NET MAUI
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Understanding XAML
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Understanding .NET MAUI
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Building mobile and desktop apps using .NET MAUI
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Using shared resources
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Introducing data binding
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Desktop Apps Using Avalonia
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Building Desktop Apps Using Avalonia
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Understanding Avalonia
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Working with Avalonia controls
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Creating an Avalonia project
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Referencing assets like images
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Web Apps Using Blazor
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Building Web Apps Using Blazor
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Understanding Blazor
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Building Blazor components
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Building a Blazor data component
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Practicing and exploring
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Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries
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Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries
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Which third-party libraries are the most popular?
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Working with images
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Working with text and numbers
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Structured event data logging
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Mapping between objects
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Making fluent assertions in unit testing
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Validating data
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Generating PDFs
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Practicing and exploring
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Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
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Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
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Working with dates and times
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Working with time zones
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Working with cultures
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Working with Noda Time
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Managing Relational Data Using SQL
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Managing Relational Data Using SQL
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Understanding modern databases
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Managing data with Transact-SQL
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Managing data with low-level APIs
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Managing data with Dapper
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Entity Models Using EF Core
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Building Entity Models Using EF Core
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Managing data with EF Core
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Controlling the tracking of entities
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Mapping inheritance hierarchies with EF Core
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Building an LLM-Based Chat Service
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Building an LLM-Based Chat Service
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Introducing LLMs
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Using Agent Framework with an OpenAI model
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Building an MCP server
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Running local LLMs
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Building and Securing Minimal API Web Services
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Building and Securing Minimal API Web Services
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Understanding web services
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Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal API
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Relaxing the same origin security policy using CORS
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Preventing denial of service attacks using rate limiting
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Improving startup time and resources using native AOT
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Understanding identity services
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Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services
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Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services
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Understanding service architecture
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Caching with ASP.NET Core
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Fault tolerance with Polly
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Queuing with RabbitMQ
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Implementing long-running background services
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Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
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Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
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Understanding SignalR
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Building a live communication service using SignalR
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Building a web client using the SignalR JavaScript library
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Building a .NET console app SignalR client
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Streaming data using SignalR
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Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
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Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
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Understanding GraphQL
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Building a service that supports GraphQL
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Defining GraphQL queries for EF Core models
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Building .NET clients for a GraphQL service
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Implementing GraphQL mutations
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Implementing GraphQL subscriptions
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Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
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Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
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Understanding gRPC
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Building a gRPC service and client
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Implementing gRPC for an EF Core model
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Taking gRPC further
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Handling dates, times, and decimal numbers
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Implementing interceptors and handling faults
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Implementing gRPC JSON transcoding
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Practicing and exploring
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Epilogue
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Epilogue
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Introducing the Survey Project Challenge
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Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey
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Good luck!
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Index
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Index

Introducing Apps and Services with .NET

In this first chapter, the goals are to introduce this book, related books, and their content, set up your development environment to use Visual Studio, VS Code, or Rider, and understand your choices for building apps and services. We will also review how to use the GitHub repository and good places to look for help.

The GitHub repository for this book has solutions using full application projects for all code tasks: https://github.com/markjprice/apps-services-net10/.

After going to the GitHub repository, simply press the . (dot) key on your keyboard or change .com to .dev to change the repository into a live code editor based on VS Code using GitHub Codespaces.

VS Code in a web browser is great to run alongside your chosen code editor as you work through the book’s coding tasks. You can compare your code to the solution code and easily copy and paste parts if needed.

Throughout this book, I use the term modern .NET to refer to .NET 10 and its predecessors like .NET 5, which come from .NET Core. I use the term legacy .NET to refer to .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin, and .NET Standard. Modern .NET is a unification of those legacy platforms and standards.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introducing this book and its contents
  • App and service technologies
  • Setting up your development environment
  • Structuring projects and managing packages
  • Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
  • Where to go for help
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