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Apps and Services with .NET 8

You're reading from   Apps and Services with .NET 8 Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637133
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core 4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 5. Multitasking and Concurrency 6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services 10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 15. Building Web Components Using Blazor 16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 17. Epilogue 18. Index

Working with Noda Time

Noda Time is for developers who feel that the built-in libraries for handling dates and times are not good enough. Noda Time is like Joda Time, a replacement date/time handling library for Java.

Noda Time 3.0 or later supports .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 6 or later. This means that you can use it with legacy platforms like .NET Framework and Xamarin, as well as modern .NET.

To understand one of the core deficiencies with the built-in .NET date/time types, imagine that instead of defining separate types for numbers, like int (System.Int32), double (System.Double), and decimal (System.Decimal), the .NET team defined only a System.Number type with a property named Kind to indicate what kind of number it is, how it is stored in memory, how to handle it, and so on.

That is what the team did with System.DateTime. That type has a Kind property that indicates if it is a local time, UTC time, or unspecified. It varies in behavior depending on...

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