C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8, 8th Edition Mark J. Price

Where to find the code solutions

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Get in touch

Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

Introducing this book and its contents

Setting up your development environment

Understanding .NET

Building console apps using Visual Studio 2022

Building console apps using Visual Studio Code

Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book

Looking for help

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Learn more on Discord

Speaking C#

Introducing the C# language

Discovering your C# compiler version

Understanding C# grammar and vocabulary

Working with variables

Exploring more about console apps

Understanding async and await

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

Operating on variables

Understanding selection statements

Understanding iteration statements

Storing multiple values in an array

Casting and converting between types

Handling exceptions

Checking for overflow

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Writing functions

Debugging during development

Hot reloading during development

Logging during development and runtime

Unit testing

Throwing and catching exceptions in functions

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Talking about OOP

Building class libraries

Storing data in fields

Working with methods and tuples

Controlling access with properties and indexers

Pattern matching with objects

Working with record types

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Setting up a class library and console application

Static methods and overloading operators

Making types safely reusable with generics

Raising and handling events

Implementing interfaces

Managing memory with reference and value types

Working with null values

Inheriting from classes

Casting within inheritance hierarchies

Inheriting and extending .NET types

Summarizing custom type choices

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

The road to .NET 8

Understanding .NET components

Publishing your code for deployment

Native ahead-of-time compilation

Decompiling .NET assemblies

Packaging your libraries for NuGet distribution

Working with preview features

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Working with Common .NET Types

Working with numbers

Working with text

Pattern matching with regular expressions

Storing multiple objects in collections

Working with spans, indexes, and ranges

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

Managing the filesystem

Reading and writing with streams

Encoding and decoding text

Serializing object graphs

Working with environment variables

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

Understanding modern databases

Setting up EF Core in a .NET project

Defining EF Core models

Querying EF Core models

Loading and tracking patterns with EF Core

Modifying data with EF Core

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

Writing LINQ expressions

LINQ in practice

Sorting and more

Using LINQ with EF Core

Joining, grouping, and lookups

Aggregating and paging sequences

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

Understanding ASP.NET Core

Structuring projects

Building an entity model for use in the rest of the book

Understanding web development

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Exploring ASP.NET Core

Exploring ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Using Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core

Configuring services and the HTTP request pipeline

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Building and Consuming Web Services

Building web services using the ASP.NET Core Web API

Creating a web service for the Northwind database

Documenting and testing web services

Consuming web services using HTTP clients

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

History of Blazor

Reviewing the Blazor Web App project template

Building components using Blazor

Enabling client-side execution using WebAssembly

Practicing and exploring

Summary

Epilogue

Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey

The ninth edition, coming November 2024

Good luck!