You're reading from C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Eighth Edition Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635870

Pages 828 pages

Edition 8th Edition

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

8. Working with Common .NET Types

9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

14. Building and Consuming Web Services

15. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

16. Epilogue

17. Index

Preface

There are programming books that are thousands of pages long that aim to be comprehensive references to the C# language, the .NET libraries, and app models like websites, services, and desktop and mobile apps.

This book is different. It is concise and aims to be a brisk, fun read that is packed with practical hands-on walk-throughs of each subject. The breadth of the overarching narrative comes at the cost of some depth, but you will find many signposts to explore further if you wish.

This book is simultaneously a step-by-step guide to learning modern C# and proven practices using cross-platform .NET, and a brief introduction to the fundamentals of web development, along with the creation of websites and services that can be built with these technologies. This book is most suitable for beginners to C# and .NET, as well as programmers who have worked with C# in the past but may feel left behind by the changes in the past few years.

If you already have experience with older versions of the C# language, then in the first topic of Chapter 2, Speaking C#, you can review the tables of new language features in an online section and jump straight to them.

If you already have experience with older versions of the .NET libraries, then in the first topic of Chapter 7, Packaging and Distributing .NET Types, you can review the tables of the new library features in an online section and jump straight to them.

I will point out the cool corners and gotchas of C# and .NET so that you can impress colleagues and get productive fast. Rather than slowing down and boring some readers by explaining every little thing, I will assume that you are smart enough to Google an explanation for topics that are related but not necessary to include in a beginner-to-intermediate guide that has limited space in a printed book.

Some chapters have links to additional related online-only content for those readers who would like more details. For example, Chapter 1, Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!, has an online section about the history and background of .NET.