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Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies
Bestselling author Mark Price is back to guide you through the latest and most common technologies a .NET developer should Blazor Full Stack, ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, SignalR, Azure Functions, and more!
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.
Key FeaturesUse specialized libraries to improve all aspects of your apps, including performance, security, and localizationHarness the full potential of .NET using cloud-native data stores like Cosmos DB, and unlock scalability, performance, and resilience in your service implementationsUnleash the capabilities of Blazor Full Stack and.NET MAUI to develop stunning, truly cross-platform apps for web and mobileBook DescriptionElevate your practical C# and .NET skills to the next level with this new edition of Apps and Services with .NET 8.
With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. You’ll dive into the new unified model for Blazor Full Stack and leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile and desktop apps.
This new edition introduces the latest enhancements, including the seamless implementation of web services with ADO.NET SqlClient's native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) support. Popular library coverage now includes Humanizer and Noda Time. There’s also a brand-new chapter that delves into service architecture, caching, queuing, and robust background services.
By the end of this book, you’ll have a wide range of best practices and deep insights under your belt to help you build rich apps and efficient services.
What you will learnFamiliarize yourself with a variety of technologies to implement services, such as gRPC and GraphQLStore and manage data locally and cloud-natively with SQL Server and Cosmos DBUse ADO.NET SqlClient to implement web services with native AOT publish supportLeverage Dapper for improved performance over EF CoreImplement popular third-party libraries such as Serilog, FluentValidation, Humanizer, and Noda TimeExplore the new unified hosting model of Blazor Full StackWho this book is forThis book is for .NET developers interested in exploring more specialized libraries and implementation fundamentals behind building services and apps.
You’ll need to know your way around .NET and C# quite well before you can dive in, so if you want to work your way up to this book, you can pick up Mark’s other .NET book, C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, first.
Table of ContentsIntroducing Apps and Services with .NETManaging Relational Data Using SQL ServerBuilding Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF CoreManaging NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DBMultitasking and ConcurrencyUsing Popular Third-Party LibrariesHandling Dates, Times, and InternationalizationBuilding and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIsCaching, Queuing, and Resilient Background ServicesBuilding Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure FunctionsBroadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalRCombining Data Sources Usin
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.
Key FeaturesUse specialized libraries to improve all aspects of your apps, including performance, security, and localizationHarness the full potential of .NET using cloud-native data stores like Cosmos DB, and unlock scalability, performance, and resilience in your service implementationsUnleash the capabilities of Blazor Full Stack and.NET MAUI to develop stunning, truly cross-platform apps for web and mobileBook DescriptionElevate your practical C# and .NET skills to the next level with this new edition of Apps and Services with .NET 8.
With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. You’ll dive into the new unified model for Blazor Full Stack and leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile and desktop apps.
This new edition introduces the latest enhancements, including the seamless implementation of web services with ADO.NET SqlClient's native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) support. Popular library coverage now includes Humanizer and Noda Time. There’s also a brand-new chapter that delves into service architecture, caching, queuing, and robust background services.
By the end of this book, you’ll have a wide range of best practices and deep insights under your belt to help you build rich apps and efficient services.
What you will learnFamiliarize yourself with a variety of technologies to implement services, such as gRPC and GraphQLStore and manage data locally and cloud-natively with SQL Server and Cosmos DBUse ADO.NET SqlClient to implement web services with native AOT publish supportLeverage Dapper for improved performance over EF CoreImplement popular third-party libraries such as Serilog, FluentValidation, Humanizer, and Noda TimeExplore the new unified hosting model of Blazor Full StackWho this book is forThis book is for .NET developers interested in exploring more specialized libraries and implementation fundamentals behind building services and apps.
You’ll need to know your way around .NET and C# quite well before you can dive in, so if you want to work your way up to this book, you can pick up Mark’s other .NET book, C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, first.
Table of ContentsIntroducing Apps and Services with .NETManaging Relational Data Using SQL ServerBuilding Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF CoreManaging NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DBMultitasking and ConcurrencyUsing Popular Third-Party LibrariesHandling Dates, Times, and InternationalizationBuilding and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIsCaching, Queuing, and Resilient Background ServicesBuilding Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure FunctionsBroadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalRCombining Data Sources Usin
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Published December 12, 2023
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About the author
Mark J. Price
27 books19 followersMark J Price is a former Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and current Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with more than 20 years' of educational and programming experience.
Since 1993 Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. Mark successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide.
Between 2001 and 2003 Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. Mark's 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.
Currently, Mark creates and delivers training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Platform, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce.
In 2010 Mark studied for a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree from the University of Bristol, UK.
Since 1993 Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. Mark successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide.
Between 2001 and 2003 Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. Mark's 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.
Currently, Mark creates and delivers training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Platform, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce.
In 2010 Mark studied for a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree from the University of Bristol, UK.
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December 11, 2023
This book is a fantastic tutorial as well as a reference for any .NET developer. And it pairs well with the author's complimentary book about C# 12 and .NET 8.
The book is unopinionated when it comes to choosing your development tools. It is primarily geared towards Visual Studio developers. However, as .NET 8 works across Windows, macOS and Linux (and WSL on Windows), the book also includes notes about developer using Visual Studio Code and even JetBrains Rider.
Throughout the book, the author makes use of Azure services. These include Cosmos DB, Function and SQL databases. So the reader will not only be able to develop the applications in the book, but also get experience deploying them as well. And most of the demos should fit into the Azure free tier as well. But the author is careful to explain the steps to clean up the resources to prevent being charged for unused services.
The parts of the book I liked the most were about the newer technologies. There is a chapter on Blazor which discusses building client side web applications using C# and .NET. The author demonstrates how to build several Blazor components and then uses them to build a larger ASP.NET application. The next chapter discusses .NET MAUI. This allows you to use your .NET and C# skills to create cross platform mobile and desktop applications on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. And he builds upon the experience from the Blazor chapter as Blazor UIs can be used in a .NET MAUI app. So you get maximum reuse of your source.
Mark Price has been writing this series of books over many versions of C# and .NET. And it shows as the book does not avoid the details but is still accessible to less experienced practitioners. Apps and Services with .NET 8 is a title that every .NET developer should have in their library.
The book is unopinionated when it comes to choosing your development tools. It is primarily geared towards Visual Studio developers. However, as .NET 8 works across Windows, macOS and Linux (and WSL on Windows), the book also includes notes about developer using Visual Studio Code and even JetBrains Rider.
Throughout the book, the author makes use of Azure services. These include Cosmos DB, Function and SQL databases. So the reader will not only be able to develop the applications in the book, but also get experience deploying them as well. And most of the demos should fit into the Azure free tier as well. But the author is careful to explain the steps to clean up the resources to prevent being charged for unused services.
The parts of the book I liked the most were about the newer technologies. There is a chapter on Blazor which discusses building client side web applications using C# and .NET. The author demonstrates how to build several Blazor components and then uses them to build a larger ASP.NET application. The next chapter discusses .NET MAUI. This allows you to use your .NET and C# skills to create cross platform mobile and desktop applications on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. And he builds upon the experience from the Blazor chapter as Blazor UIs can be used in a .NET MAUI app. So you get maximum reuse of your source.
Mark Price has been writing this series of books over many versions of C# and .NET. And it shows as the book does not avoid the details but is still accessible to less experienced practitioners. Apps and Services with .NET 8 is a title that every .NET developer should have in their library.
February 15, 2024
I had the opportunity to read an early version of Mark's new edition of this book and I have to say that I'm impressed. Not only is the book nearly 800 pages long, but it covers an impressive array of topics facing intermediate and advanced .NET developers. I've read comprehensive treatments of .NET before and come away from those books with confirmation that I know a lot about .NET. When I read this book, I came away realizing how much more there is to learn and explore in the .NET ecosystem.
This is a book that will broaden your .NET horizons and equip you for specialty development tasks. Almost any type of .NET developer will benefit from the contents of this book and you're likely to learn new techniques and "good practices" as you go along.
I will heartily recommend this book to any maturing .NET developer who is already excelling in some areas and wants to broaden their horizons.
This is a book that will broaden your .NET horizons and equip you for specialty development tasks. Almost any type of .NET developer will benefit from the contents of this book and you're likely to learn new techniques and "good practices" as you go along.
I will heartily recommend this book to any maturing .NET developer who is already excelling in some areas and wants to broaden their horizons.
June 1, 2025
Very well written. I learned a lot. I have just read all three .NEt books by Mark Price. The first is most useful. Goes through the c# language. This is also very useful. A walktrough of the current tools used in professional c# development. Suddenly the "old" code at work makes a lot more sense. This book is currently (start of 2025) well worth the money. Though as tools change, this is not a book that will keep its value over time..
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