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C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Tenth Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

4.3 (13)
By: Mark J. Price
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Overview of this book

C# and .NET continue to power modern cross-platform and enterprise development. With the release of C# 14 and .NET 10, developers gain access to a more capable, efficient, and future-ready platform for building websites, services, and applications across Windows, Linux, and macOS. This fully updated tenth edition takes a practical, hands-on approach. You’ll start with core C# and object-oriented programming concepts, then progress through building, testing, and debugging applications while working with .NET libraries, filesystems, serialization, and LINQ. The book covers key C# 14 enhancements—such as field modifiers, partial events, and instance constructors, explained through real-world examples. You’ll also build modern web solutions using ASP.NET Core 10, Blazor, and Minimal APIs, including support for native AOT compilation, making this book well suited for cloud-native, microservice, and container-based development. By the end of the book, you’ll be confident in building maintainable, high-performance websites and services aligned with modern .NET development practices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
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Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
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Introducing this book and its contents
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Setting up your development environment
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Understanding .NET
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Building console apps and managing multiple projects in a solution
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Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
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Running a C# code file without a project file
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Looking for help
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Speaking C#
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Speaking C#
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Introducing the C# language
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Discovering your C# compiler version
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Understanding C# grammar and vocabulary
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Working with variables
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Exploring more about console apps
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Practicing and exploring
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Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
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Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
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Operating on variables
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Understanding selection statements
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Understanding iteration statements
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Storing multiple values in an array
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Casting and converting between types
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Handling exceptions
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Checking for overflow
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Practicing and exploring
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Summary
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Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
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Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
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Writing functions
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Debugging during development
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Hot reloading during development
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Unit testing
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Throwing and catching exceptions in functions
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
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Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
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Talking about OOP
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Building class libraries
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Storing data in fields
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Working with methods and tuples
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Controlling access with properties and indexers
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Pattern matching with objects
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Working with record types
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Practicing and exploring
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Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
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Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
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Setting up a class library and console app
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Static methods and overloading operators
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Making types safely reusable with generics
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Raising and handling events
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Implementing interfaces
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Working with null values
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Inheriting from classes
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Casting within inheritance hierarchies
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Inheriting and extending .NET types
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Practicing and exploring
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Packaging and Distributing .NET Types
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Packaging and Distributing .NET Types
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The road to .NET 10
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Understanding .NET components
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Publishing your code for deployment
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Native ahead-of-time compilation
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Packaging your libraries for NuGet distribution
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Practicing and exploring
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Working with Common .NET Types
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Working with Common .NET Types
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Working with numbers
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Working with text
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Pattern matching with regular expressions
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Storing multiple objects in collections
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Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
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Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
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Managing a filesystem
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Reading and writing with streams
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Encoding and decoding text
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Serializing object graphs
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Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
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Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
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Understanding modern databases
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Setting up EF Core in a .NET project
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Defining EF Core models
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Querying EF Core models
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Practicing and exploring
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Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
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Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
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Writing LINQ expressions
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LINQ in practice
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Sorting and more
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Using LINQ with EF Core
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Joining, grouping, and lookups
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Practicing and exploring
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Introducing Modern Web Development Using .NET
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Introducing Modern Web Development Using .NET
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Understanding ASP.NET Core
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Structuring projects
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Building an entity model for use in the rest of the book
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core
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Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core
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Exploring ASP.NET Core
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History of Blazor
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Exploring Blazor static SSR
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Using EF Core with ASP.NET Core
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Practicing and exploring
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Building Interactive Web Components Using Blazor
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Building Interactive Web Components Using Blazor
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Reviewing the Blazor Web App project template
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Building components using Blazor
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Defining forms using the EditForm component
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Practicing and exploring
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Building and Consuming Web Services
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Building and Consuming Web Services
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Building web services using ASP.NET Core
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Creating a web service for the Northwind database
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Documenting and trying out web services
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Consuming web services using HTTP clients
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Practicing and exploring
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Epilogue
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Epilogue
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Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey
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Using this book with future versions of .NET
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Good luck!
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Index
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Index

Looking for help

This section is about how to find quality information about programming on the web. You will learn about Microsoft Learn documentation including its new MCP server for integration with AI systems, getting help while coding and using dotnet commands, getting help from fellow readers in the book’s Discord channel, searching the .NET source code for implementation details, and finally making the most of modern AI tools like GitHub Copilot.

This is useful information that all readers should know and refer to throughout reading any of my .NET 10 books, especially if you are new to .NET.

This section has been made into a separate Appendix C, both to make it reusable in all four of my .NET 10 books, and to avoid wasting pages in the print book for those readers who have already read it from one of the other books.

An online Markdown version of Appendix C is available in the book’s GitHub repository at the following link: https://github.com/markjprice/markjprice/blob/main/articles/getting-help.md. Since this is hosted in my personal GitHub account, I can keep it updated more frequently throughout the three-year support period of .NET 10.

A PDF version of Appendix C is included with this book’s free exclusive benefits from my publisher Packt. You can unlock it and the other benefits at the following link: https://packtpub.com/unlock, then search for this book by name. Ensure it’s the correct edition. Keep your purchase invoice ready before you start.

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