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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209442

Length 610 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Application Development

Authors (5):

Ravindra Akella

Suneel Kumar Kunani

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu

Arun Kumar Tamirisa

Rishabh Verma

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Architecting an Enterprise Application and its Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Designing and Architecting the Enterprise Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing .NET 5 Core and Standard

4. Chapter 3: Introducing C# 9

5. Section 2: Cross-Cutting Concerns

6. Chapter 4: Threading and Asynchronous Operations

7. Chapter 5: Dependency Injection in .NET

8. Chapter 6: Configuration in .NET Core

9. Chapter 7: Logging in .NET 5

10. Chapter 8: Understanding Caching

11. Section 3: Developing Your Enterprise Application

12. Chapter 9: Working with Data in .NET 5

13. Chapter 10: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

14. Chapter 11: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web Application

15. Section 4: Security

16. Chapter 12: Understanding Authentication

17. Chapter 13: Understanding Authorization

18. Section 5: Health Checks, Unit Testing, Deployment, and Diagnostics

19. Chapter 14: Health and Diagnostics

20. Chapter 15: Testing

21. Chapter 16: Deploying the Applications in Azure

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3: Introducing C# 9

C# is an elegant and type-safe object-oriented programming language that enables developers to build many types of secure and robust applications that run in the .NET ecosystem and is in the top 5 of the list of popular programming languages published by GitHub.

C# was initially developed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft as part of the .NET initiative. Since its first release in January 2002, there have been new features added consistently to the language to improve performance and productivity.

The latest version at the time of writing this, C# 9.0, was released in November 2020, targeting .NET 5. While C# 9.0 is not a major release in terms of new features, there are quite a few interesting additions and enhancements, which we will learn about in this chapter: