C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build Apps, Websites, and Services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 Using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code

by Mark J. Price

Publisher's The newer 7th edition of this book covers C# 11 and EF Core 7 that can both be used with either .NET 7 or .NET 6. The 7th edition also has errata fixes and improvements suggested by readers of the 6th edition. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format. Extensively revised to accommodate all the latest features that come with C# 10 and .NET 6, this latest edition of our comprehensive guide will get you coding in C# with confidence. You'll learn object-oriented programming, writing, testing, and debugging functions, implementing interfaces, and inheriting classes. The book covers the .NET APIs for performing tasks like managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, and working with the filesystem, async streams, and serialization. You'll build and deploy cross-platform apps, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core. Instead of distracting you with unnecessary application code, the first twelve chapters will teach you about C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries through simple console applications. In later chapters, having mastered the basics, you'll then build practical applications and services using ASP.NET Core, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and Blazor. Designed for both beginners and C# and .NET programmers who have worked with C# in the past and want to catch up with the changes made in the past few years, this book doesn't need you to have any C# or .NET experience. However, you should have a general understanding of programming before you jump in.

Genres: Programming

826 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2021

About the author

Mark 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.

Reviews

[Matthew Horvat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book does a great job introducing the reader to .NET 6 and C#10. I wished it had been twice as long as it's 800 some odd pages. Seems like there were chapter that were just, here's a giant topic we're cramming into one chapter to say we covered it.

That all said, the part on C#10 itself were very well done. Even though I've been using C#10 since 1.0 and 2 days, I still learned somethings, and felt the author explained the new features well enough for me to start digging deeper.

[Andrei Tarutin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is mostly to summarize the knowledge on .NET 6. Definitely not a deep dive, however it was not supposed to be the one.