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

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635870
Pages 828 pages
Edition 8th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mark J. Price Mark J. Price
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

Preface 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET! 2. Speaking C# 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

Setting up your development environment

Before you start programming, you’ll need a code editor for C#. Microsoft has a family of code editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which include:

  • Visual Studio 2022 for Windows
  • Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, or Linux
  • Visual Studio Code for the Web or GitHub Codespaces

Third parties have created their own C# code editors, for example, JetBrains Rider, which is available for Windows, Mac, or Linux but does have a license cost. JetBrains Rider is popular with more experienced .NET developers.

Warning! Although JetBrains is a fantastic company with great products, both Rider and the ReSharper extension for Visual Studio are software, and all software has bugs and quirky behavior. For example, they might show errors like “Cannot resolve symbol” in your Razor Pages, Razor views, and Blazor components. Yet you can build and run those files because there is no...

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