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

An accessible guide for beginner-to-intermediate programmers to the concepts, real-world applications, and latest features of C# 12 and .NET 8, with hands-on exercises using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code. Key Features Explore the latest additions to C# 12, the .NET 8 class libraries, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Mark J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK Packt Publishing Ltd. 2023
Edition:Eighth edition
Series:Expert insight
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Logging during development and runtime
  • Unit testing
  • Throwing and catching exceptions in functions
  • Practicing and exploring
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: 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
  • Chapter 6: Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
  • Setting up a class library and console application
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: 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
  • Chapter 2: Speaking C#
  • Introducing the C# language
  • Discovering your C# compiler version
  • Understanding C# grammar and vocabulary
  • Working with variables
  • 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
  • Chapter 7: 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
  • Chapter 8: 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
  • Chapter 9: Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
  • Managing the filesystem
  • Reading and writing with streams
  • Encoding and decoding text
  • Serializing object graphs
  • Exploring more about console apps
  • Understanding async and await
  • Practicing and exploring
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: 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
  • Chapter 4: Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
  • Writing functions
  • Debugging during development
  • Hot reloading during development