C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build applications with C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core, and ML.NET using Visual Studio Code, 4th Edition - Softcover

Mark J. Price

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788478126 ISBN 13: 9781788478120

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Learn the fundamentals, practical applications, and latest features of C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 from expert teacher Mark J. Price.

Key Features

• Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 3.0
• Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 8.0
• Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core 3.0

Book Description

In C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fourth Edition, expert teacher Mark J. Price gives you everything you need to start programming C# applications.

This latest edition uses the popular Visual Studio Code editor to work across all major operating systems. It is fully updated and expanded with new chapters on Content Management Systems (CMS) and machine learning with ML.NET.

The book covers all the topics you need. Part 1 teaches the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming, and new C# 8.0 features such as nullable reference types, simplified switch pattern matching, and default interface methods. Part 2 covers the .NET Standard APIs, such as managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, working with the filesystem, async streams, serialization, and encryption. Part 3 provides examples of cross-platform applications you can build and deploy, such as web apps using ASP.NET Core or mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. The book introduces three technologies for building Windows desktop applications including Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, as well as web applications, web services, and mobile apps.

What you will learn

• Build cross-platform applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android
• Explore application development with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0
• Explore ASP.NET Core 3.0 and create professional web applications
• Learn object-oriented programming and C# multitasking
• Query and manipulate data using LINQ
• Use Entity Framework Core and work with relational databases
• Discover Windows app development using the Universal Windows Platform and XAML
• Build mobile applications for iOS and Android using Xamarin.Forms

Who this book is for

Readers with some prior programming experience or with a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) background, who want to gain a solid foundation with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0.

Table of Contents

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
2. Speaking C#
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. 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 Windows Desktop Apps
21. Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms
22. Appendix (Bonus Chapter)

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788478126
• ISBN 13: 9781788478120
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 818
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland