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Apps and Services with .NET 7

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813433
Pages 814 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mark J. Price Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server 3. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 4. Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency 5. Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries 6. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Protecting Your Data and Applications 9. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 10. Exposing Data via the Web Using OData 11. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 12. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 13. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 14. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 15. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 16. Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly 17. Leveraging Open-Source Blazor Component Libraries 18. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 19. Integrating .NET MAUI Apps with Blazor and Native Platforms 20. Introducing the Survey Project Challenge 21. Epilogue 22. Index

Building Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are SPAs that work like desktop apps. They can run in their own window instead of in a browser window, and then be started from the desktop or home screen on a mobile device. They automatically update in the background.

They are named “progressive” because they can first be used as a website, perhaps only once or rarely, and then be installed if the user finds they use them more frequently and want some of the benefits of a more integrated experience that works offline.

PWA support in Blazor WebAssembly projects means that the web app gains the following benefits:

  • It acts as a normal web page until the visitor explicitly decides to progress to a full app experience, with better integrations with native platform features like notifications, full access to the filesystem, and so on.
  • After the app is installed, it can be launched from the OS’s start menu or desktop.
  • It visually...
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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