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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803237800

Length 818 pages

Edition 7th Edition

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.NET

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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 Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

15. Building and Consuming Web Services

16. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

17. Epilogue

18. Index

Understanding .NET

.NET 7, .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin are related and overlapping platforms for developers used to build applications and services. In this section, I’m going to introduce you to each of these .NET concepts.

Understanding .NET Framework

.NET Framework is a development platform that includes a Common Language Runtime (CLR), which manages the execution of code, and a Base Class Library (BCL), which provides a rich library of classes to build applications from.

Microsoft originally designed .NET Framework to have the possibility of being cross-platform, but Microsoft put their implementation efforts into making it work best with Windows.

Since .NET Framework 4.5.2, it has been an official component of the Windows operating system. Components have the same support as their parent products, so 4.5.2 and later follow the life cycle policy of the Windows OS on which they are installed. .NET Framework is installed on over one billion computers...