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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568105

Length 822 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

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. Introducing 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 Web User Interfaces Using Blazor

21. Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

22. Index

Understanding app models for C# and .NET

Since this book is about C# 9 and .NET 5, we will learn about app models that use them to build the practical applications that we will encounter in the remaining chapters of this book.

More Information: Microsoft has extensive guidance for implementing App Models such as ASP.NET web applications, Xamarin mobile apps, and UWP apps in its .NET Application Architecture Guidance documentation, which you can read at the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/architecture

Building websites using ASP.NET Core

Websites are made up of multiple web pages loaded statically from the filesystem or generated dynamically by a server-side technology such as ASP.NET Core. A web browser makes GET requests using URLs that identify each page and can manipulate data stored on the server using POST, PUT, and DELETE requests.

With many websites, the web browser is treated as a presentation layer, with almost all of the processing...