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

You're reading from   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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635870
Length 828 pages
Edition 8th Edition
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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

Unit testing

Fixing bugs in code is expensive. The earlier that a bug is discovered in the development process, the less expensive it will be to fix.

Unit testing is a good way to find bugs early in the development process because they test a small unit before they are integrated together or are seen by user acceptance testers. Some developers even follow the principle that programmers should create unit tests before they write code, and this is called Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Microsoft has a proprietary unit testing framework known as MSTest. There is also a framework named NUnit. However, we will use the free and open-source third-party framework xUnit.net. All three do basically the same thing. xUnit was created by the same team that built NUnit, but they fixed the mistakes they felt they made previously. xUnit is more extensible and has better community support.

If you are curious about the pros and cons of the various testing systems, then there are hundreds...

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