Book Image

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)

Summary

We've now created a logic app that retrieves data from an Excel spreadsheet, analyzes that data and, based on the result, interfaces with Twitter. Although there are a lot of steps, I hope you can see that the development of this is much faster than if you had to write all of these interfaces yourself. What's more, you get every single call to your Logic App logged, so you can easily diagnose any issues.

You could easily add an error handling capability to this so that it sent an e-mail if it failed; maybe you want to raise an issue on Jira; maybe you have a website and you want to perform a test on it every day to check if it's still running and e-mail you if it isn't; maybe you have a service bus queue and you want to notify someone every time you get a dead-lettered message. All of these things are possible with no or very little code.

In the next...