Introducing Practical Applications of C# and .NET
The third and final part of this book is about practical applications of C# and .NET. You will learn how to build cross-platform projects such as websites, services, and mobile and desktop apps.
Microsoft calls platforms for building applications app models or workloads.
In Chapters 1 to 18 and 20, you can use OS-specific Visual Studio or cross-platform Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider to build all the apps. In Chapter 19, Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI (available at https://github.com/markjprice/cs10dotnet6/blob/main/9781801077361_Bonus_Content.pdf) , although you could use Visual Studio Code to build the mobile and desktop app, it is not easy. Visual Studio 2022 for Windows has better support for .NET MAUI than Visual Studio Code does (for now).
I recommend that you work through this and subsequent chapters sequentially because later chapters will reference projects in earlier chapters, and you...