You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 10 and .NET 6 – Third Edition Develop software solutions using microservices, DevOps, EF Core, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235257

Length 714 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Francesco Abbruzzese

Gabriel Baptista

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Non-Functional Requirements

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding on the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Kubernetes Service

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

8. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

9. Working with Azure Functions

10. Design Patterns and .NET 6 Implementation

11. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

12. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 10

13. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET

14. Implementing Microservices with .NET

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Implementing Frontend Microservices with ASP.NET Core

17. Blazor WebAssembly

18. Native versus Web Clients

19. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

20. Best Practices in Coding C# 10

21. Understanding DevOps Principles

22. Challenges of Applying CI & CD Scenarios

23. Testing Your Enterprise Application

24. Answers

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

26. Index

Cross-platform technologies

Although performance can be a difficult requirement to achieve, in many scenarios, due to the simplicity of the solution, this is not the Achilles’ heel of the application. Considering the WWTravelClub, although it would be useful to have this offline experience mentioned before, the performance itself is not the most difficult one to achieve.

In these scenarios, cross-platform technologies make total sense. Let us check Xamarin.Forms, the option we currently have for apps, and .NET MAUI, the approach designed by Microsoft for the near future.

Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms is the technology associated with Xamarin that enables cross-platform development. With it, you can deliver a single shared code for a user interface that adapts its view according to the device it is deployed on.

To do so, instead of using the same GUI environments from native apps, Xamarin.Forms uses XAML as the engine to design the interface. The Model-View-ViewModel...