You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8 Build enterprise applications using microservices, DevOps, EF Core, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805127659

Length 756 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Gabriel Baptista

Francesco Abbruzzese

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Non-Functional Requirements

3. Managing Requirements

4. Best Practices in Coding C# 12

5. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 12

6. Design Patterns and .NET 8 Implementation

7. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

8. Understanding DevOps Principles and CI/CD

9. Testing Your Enterprise Application

10. Deciding on the Best Cloud-Based Solution

11. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

12. Choosing Your Data Storage in the Cloud

13. Interacting with Data in C# – Entity Framework Core

14. Implementing Microservices with .NET

15. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET

16. Working with Serverless – Azure Functions

17. Presenting ASP.NET Core

18. Implementing Frontend Microservices with ASP.NET Core

19. Client Frameworks: Blazor

20. Kubernetes

21. Case Study

22. Case Study Extension: Developing .NET Microservices for Kubernetes

23. Answers

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

How does .NET 8 deal with SOA?

WCF technology has not been ported to .NET 5+ and there are no plans to perform a complete port of it. Part of the source code was donated, and an open-source project started out of it. You can find information about this project at https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF. Instead, Microsoft is investing in gRPC, Google’s open-source technology. Besides, .NET 8 has excellent support for REST services through ASP.NET Core.

There is a tool developed by Microsoft to help you with the migration of WCF applications to the latest .NET. You can find it at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/migration-wcf-to-corewcf-upgrade-assistant/.

The main reasons behind the decision to abandon WCF are as follows:

As we have already discussed, SOAP technology has been overtaken by REST technology in most application areas.
WCF technology is strictly tied to Windows, so it would be very expensive to reimplement all its features from...