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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Eighth Edition

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

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635870
Pages 828 pages
Edition 8th Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

LINQ in practice

Now we can build a console app to explore practical examples of using LINQ.

Understanding deferred execution

LINQ uses deferred execution. It is important to understand that calling most of the above extension methods does not execute the query and get the results. Most of these extension methods return a LINQ expression that represents a question, not an answer. Let's explore:

  1. Use your preferred code editor to create a new project, as defined in the following list:
    • Project template: Console App / console
    • Project file and folder: LinqWithObjects
    • Solution file and folder: Chapter11
  2. In the project file, globally and statically import the System.Console class.
  3. Add a new class file named Program.Helpers.cs.
  4. In Program.Helpers.cs, delete any existing statements and then define a partial Program class with a method to output a section title, as shown in the following code:
partial class Program
{
  private static void SectionTitle(string title)
  {
    ConsoleColor...
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