C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Mark J. Price, Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

December 2018

668 pages

20 hours 2 minutes

Explore C# and the .NET Core framework to create applications and optimize them with ASP.NET Core 2

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Learn	Explore ASP.NET Core to create professional web applications Master OOP with C# to increase code reusability and efficiency Protect your data using encryption and hashing Measure application performance using BenchmarkDotNet Use design techniques to increase your application’s performance Learn memory management techniques in .NET Core Understand tools and techniques to monitor application performance
About	C# is a widely used programming language, thanks to its easy learning curve, versatility, and support for modern paradigms. The language is used to create desktop apps, background services, web apps, and mobile apps. .NET Core is open source and compatible with Mac OS and Linux. There is no limit to what you can achieve with C# and .NET Core. This Learning Path begins with the basics of C# and object-oriented programming (OOP) and explores features of C#, such as tuples, pattern matching, and out variables. You will understand.NET Standard 2.0 class libraries and ASP.NET Core 2.0, and create professional websites, services, and applications. You will become familiar with mobile app development using Xamarin.Forms and learn to develop high-performing applications by writing optimized code with various profiling techniques. By the end of C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications, you will have all the knowledge required to build modern, cross-platform apps using C# and .NET. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition by Mark J. Price C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Features	Get to grips with multi-threaded, concurrent, and asynchronous programming in C# and .NET Core Develop modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 2.0 and C# 7.0 Create efficient web applications with ASP.NET Core 2.
Page Count	668
Course Length	20 hours 2 minutes
ISBN	9781789956696
Date Of Publication	21 Dec 2018

Table of contents

1 Controlling the Flow and Converting Types

Selection statements
Iteration statements
Casting and converting between types
Handling exceptions when converting types
Checking for overflow
Looking for help
Summary

2 Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Writing functions
Debugging an application during development
Logging during development and runtime
Unit testing functions
Summary

3 Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Talking about OOP
Building class libraries
Storing data with fields
Writing and calling methods
Controlling how parameters are passed
Splitting classes using partial
Controlling access with properties and indexers
Summary

4 Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Setting up a class library and console application
Simplifying methods with operators
Defining local functions
Raising and handling events
Implementing interfaces
Making types more reusable with generics
Managing memory with reference and value types
Inheriting from classes
Casting within inheritance hierarchies
Inheriting and extending .NET types
Summary

5 Understanding and Packaging .NET Standard Types

Understanding assemblies and namespaces
Sharing code cross-platform with .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries
Understanding NuGet packages
Publishing your applications for deployment
Packaging your libraries for NuGet distribution
Porting from .NET Framework to .NET Core
Summary

6 Using Common .NET Standard Types

Working with numbers
Working with text
Working with collections
Working with network resources
Working with types and attributes
Internationalizing your code
Summary

7 Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

Managing the filesystem
Reading and writing with streams
Encoding text
Serializing object graphs
Summary

8 Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking

Monitoring performance and resource usage
Understanding processes, threads, and tasks
Running tasks asynchronously
Synchronizing access to shared resources
Understanding async and await
Summary

9 Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Understanding web development
Understanding ASP.NET Core
Exploring Razor Pages
Using Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core
Summary

10 Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVC

Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website
Understanding an ASP.NET Core MVC website
Summary

11 Building Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET Core

Building web services using ASP.NET Core Web API
Documenting and testing web services using Swagger
Building SPAs using Angular
Using other project templates
Summary

12 Building Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent Design

Understanding the modern Windows platform
Creating a modern Windows app
Using resources and templates
Data binding
Building apps using Windows Template Studio
Summary

13 Building Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.Forms

Understanding Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
Building mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms
Summary

14 Understanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring Performance

.NET Core internals
Utilizing multiple cores of the CPU for high performance
How releasing builds increases performance
Benchmarking .NET Core 2.0 applications
Summary

15 Data Structures and Writing Optimized Code in C#

What are data structures?
Understanding the use of Big O notation to measure the performance and complexity of an algorithm
Choosing the right data structure for performance optimization
Best practices in writing optimized code in C#
Summary

16 Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application Performance

Coding principles
Design principles
Summary

17 Memory Management Techniques in .NET Core

Memory allocation process overview
Analysing CLR internals through the SOS debugger in .NET Core
Memory fragmentation
Avoiding finalizers
Best practices for disposing of objects in .NET Core
Summary

18 Microservices Architecture

Microservices architecture
Developing microservices architecture with .NET Core
Deploying microservices on Docker containers
Summary

Authors

Mark J. Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsof Certifed Trainer (MCT) and Microsof Specialist:

Programming in C# and Architecting Microsof Azure Solutions, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience.

Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsof 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. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experiences in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full time to write ofcial courseware for Microsof in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the frst training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsof, 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 Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certifcate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree from the University of Bristol, UK.

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solution architect with more than 15 years of software development experience. He has worked in different organizations across Pakistan, the USA, and the Middle East. Currently, he is working with Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer and based in Dubai. He specializes mainly in Application development, Cloud technologies and DevOps. He is a prolific writer and published numerous technical articles on different websites, such as MSDN, TechNet, DZone, and also an author of three other books published by Packt: JavaScript for .NET Developers, Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core and C# 7.0 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance.

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