You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 10 and .NET 6 – Third Edition Develop software solutions using microservices, DevOps, EF Core, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235257

Length 714 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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.NET

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Authors (2):

Francesco Abbruzzese

Gabriel Baptista

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Non-Functional Requirements

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding on the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Kubernetes Service

7. Interacting with Data in C# – Entity Framework Core

8. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

9. Working with Azure Functions

10. Design Patterns and .NET 6 Implementation

11. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

12. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 10

13. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET

14. Implementing Microservices with .NET

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Implementing Frontend Microservices with ASP.NET Core

17. Blazor WebAssembly

18. Native versus Web Clients

19. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

20. Best Practices in Coding C# 10

21. Understanding DevOps Principles

22. Challenges of Applying CI & CD Scenarios

23. Testing Your Enterprise Application

24. Answers

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

26. Index

Using .NET 6 for code reuse

.NET has evolved a lot since its first version. This evolution is not only related to the number of commands and performance issues but the supported platforms too. As we discussed in Chapter 1, Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture, you can run C# .NET on billions of devices, even if they are running Linux, Android, macOS, or iOS. For this reason, .NET Standard was first announced together with .NET Core 1.0, but .NET Standard became particularly important with .NET Standard 2.0, when .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET Core, and Xamarin were compatible with it.

The key point is that .NET Standard was not only a kind of Visual Studio project. More than that, it was a formal specification available to all .NET implementations. As you can see in the following table, it covers everything from .NET Framework to Unity: