You're reading from Apps and Services with .NET 7

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813433

Pages 814 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

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

Working with images

ImageSharp is a third-party cross-platform 2D graphics library. When .NET Core 1.0 was in development, there was negative feedback from the community about the missing System.Drawing namespace for working with 2D images. The ImageSharp project was started to fill that gap for modern .NET applications.

In their official documentation for System.Drawing, Microsoft says, “The System.Drawing namespace is not recommended for new development due to not being supported within a Windows or ASP.NET service, and it is not cross-platform. ImageSharp and SkiaSharp are recommended as alternatives.”

SixLabors released ImageSharp 2.0 on February 7, 2022, with WebP, Tiff, and Pbm format support, more efficient and faster memory pooling and allocation, and massive performance improvements for their JPEG and PNG formats. You can read the announcement at the following link: https://sixlabors.com/posts/announcing-imagesharp-200/.