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C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

By : Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer
Book Image

C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

By: Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer

Overview of this book

.NET Core is a general-purpose, modular, cross-platform, and opensource implementation of .NET. The latest release of .NET Core 3 comes with improved performance and security features, along with support for desktop applications. .NET Core 3 is not only useful for new developers looking to start learning the framework, but also for legacy developers interested in migrating their apps. Updated with the latest features and enhancements, this updated second edition is a step-by-step, project-based guide. The book starts with a brief introduction to the key features of C# 8 and .NET Core 3. You'll learn to work with relational data using Entity Framework Core 3, before understanding how to use ASP.NET Core. As you progress, you’ll discover how you can use .NET Core to create cross-platform applications. Later, the book will show you how to upgrade your old WinForms apps to .NET Core 3. The concluding chapters will then help you use SignalR effectively to add real-time functionality to your applications, before demonstrating how to implement MongoDB in your apps. Finally, you'll delve into serverless computing and how to build microservices using Docker and Kubernetes. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in developing applications using .NET Core 3.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Understanding Blazor

Blazor is, at the time of writing, around two years old (it was first demoed in 2017). The idea was to take the concept of WebAssembly and mix it in with existing concepts that web developers are familiar with, such as Razor.

Part of the reason that this section is an appendix is that only server-side Blazor was released with .NET Core 3. While the client side is in a workable state, it is not in the official release at the time of writing.

There are two flavors of Blazor: client and server. Server-side Blazor was released with .NET Core 3. It works by running the C# code on the server and then sending screen updates to the client using SignalR. Whilst this is an interesting methodology, since it does not use WebAssembly, we won't discuss it further in this chapter.

To create a Blazor project, you'll need the Visual Studio plugin: https://marketplace...