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C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development

You're reading from   C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568105
Length 822 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET! 2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER 3. Controlling Flow and Converting Types 4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions 5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming 6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes 7. Understanding and Packaging .NET Types 8. Working with Common .NET Types 9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization 10. Protecting Your Data and Applications 11. Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core 12. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ 13. Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking 14. Introducing Practical Applications of C# and .NET 15. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages 16. Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern 17. Building Websites Using a Content Management System 18. Building and Consuming Web Services 19. Building Intelligent Apps Using Machine Learning 20. Building Web User Interfaces Using Blazor 21. Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps 22. Index

Setting up your development environment

Before you start programming, you'll need a code editor for C#. Microsoft has a family of code editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which include:

  • Visual Studio Code
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Visual Studio 2019
  • Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

Using Visual Studio Code for cross-platform development

The most modern and lightweight code editor to choose, and the only one from Microsoft that is cross-platform, is Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is able to run on all common operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and many varieties of Linux, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu.

Visual Studio Code is a good choice for modern cross-platform development because it has an extensive and growing set of extensions to support many languages beyond C#, and being cross-platform and lightweight it can be installed on all platforms that your apps will be deployed to for quick bug...

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