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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

You're reading from   C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8

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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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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

History of Blazor

Blazor lets you build interactive web user interface components using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor is supported on all modern browsers.

JavaScript and friends

Traditionally, any code that needs to be executed in a web browser must be written using the JavaScript programming language or a higher-level technology that transpiles (transforms or compiles) into JavaScript. This is because all browsers have supported JavaScript for over two decades, so it is the lowest common denominator for implementing business logic in the client.

JavaScript does have some issues, however. Although it has superficial similarities to C-style languages like C# and Java, it is actually very different once you dig beneath the surface. It is a dynamically typed pseudo-functional language that uses prototypes instead of class inheritance for object reuse. It might look human, but you will get a surprise when it’s revealed to be a Skrull.

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