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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)

Building a Twitter Automated Campaign Manager Using Azure Logic Apps and Functions

The purpose of computing, since the very first computer was conceived of by Charles Babbage over 200 years ago, was automation and accuracy. That is, we want computers to do things that we can do, but faster and with fewer mistakes. Things have moved on considerably since the days of analogue computers, and now we have systems that hold petabytes of data, and we typically carry computers in our pockets that would put to shame the computers that sent a man to the moon 50 years ago! The premise to all this, though, is the same: we just want computers to do the same things that we could, but faster and with fewer mistakes.

The particular problem that we are addressing in this chapter is very much an automation one: imagine that you've just started at a new company and, as your first job, you&apos...