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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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.NET

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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...