You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566040

Length 700 pages

Edition 2nd 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

2. Non-Functional Requirements FREE CHAPTER

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Service Fabric

7. Azure Kubernetes Service

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

9. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

10. Working with Azure Functions

11. Design Patterns and .NET 5 Implementation

12. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

13. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 9

14. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET Core

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Blazor WebAssembly

17. Best Practices in Coding C# 9

18. Testing Your Code with Unit Test Cases and TDD

19. Using Tools to Write Better Code

20. Understanding DevOps Principles

21. Challenges of Applying CI Scenarios

22. Automation for Functional Tests

23. Answers

24. Another Book You May Enjoy

25. Index

Using .NET 5 or .NET Standard for code reuse

.NET has evolved a lot since its first version. This evolution is not only related to the number of commands and performance issues, but the supported platforms too. As we discussed in Chapter 1, Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture, you can run C# .NET on billions of devices, even if they are running Linux, Android, macOS, or iOS. For this reason, .NET Standard was first announced together with .NET Core 1.0, but .NET Standard became particularly important with .NET Standard 2.0, when .NET Framework 4.6, .NET Core, and Xamarin were compatible with it.

The key point is that .NET Standard was not only a kind of Visual Studio project. More than that, it was a formal specification available to all .NET implementations. As you can see in the following table, it covers everything from .NET Framework to Unity:

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