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C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build applications with C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core, and ML.NET using Visual Studio Code, 4th Edition 4th Edition, Kindle Edition

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Publisher's Note: Microsoft stops supporting .NET Core 3.1 in December 2022. The newer 7th edition of this book is available that covers .NET 7 (end-of-life May 2024) or .NET 6 (end-of-life November 2024), with C# 11 and EF Core 7.

Key Features

Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 3.0
Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 8.0
Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core 3.0

Book Description

In C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fourth Edition, expert teacher Mark J. Price gives you everything you need to start programming C# applications.

This latest edition uses the popular Visual Studio Code editor to work across all major operating systems. It is fully updated and expanded with new chapters on Content Management Systems (CMS) and machine learning with ML.NET.

The book covers all the topics you need. Part 1 teaches the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming, and new C# 8.0 features such as nullable reference types, simplified switch pattern matching, and default interface methods. Part 2 covers the .NET Standard APIs, such as managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, working with the filesystem, async streams, serialization, and encryption. Part 3 provides examples of cross-platform applications you can build and deploy, such as web apps using ASP.NET Core or mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. The book introduces three technologies for building Windows desktop applications including Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, as well as web applications, web services, and mobile apps.

What you will learn

Build cross-platform applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android
Explore application development with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0
Explore ASP.NET Core 3.0 and create professional web applications
Learn object-oriented programming and C# multitasking
Query and manipulate data using LINQ
Use Entity Framework Core and work with relational databases
Discover Windows app development using the Universal Windows Platform and XAML
Build mobile applications for iOS and Android using Xamarin.Forms

Who this book is for

Readers with some prior programming experience or with a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) background, who want to gain a solid foundation with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0.

Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
Speaking C#
Controlling Flow and Converting Types
Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
Understanding and Packaging .NET Types
Working with Common .NET Types
Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
Protecting Your Data and Applications
Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core
Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking
Practical Applications of C# and .NET
Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
Building Websites Using a Content Management System
Building and Consuming Web Services
Building Intelligent Apps Using Machine Learning
Building Windows Desktop Apps
Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms
Appendix (Bonus Chapter)

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4th
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October 31, 2019
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Visual Studio Code .NET Core 3 C# 8.9 Modern Cross-Platform Development ML.NET

What's new in this fourth edition?

For this fourth edition, we went through the whole book and brought everything up-to-date for C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0. This edition also has two completely new chapters. The first new chapter is about Content Management Systems for enabling non-technical people to manage their own content on a website without developers needing to be involved. We look at a great CMS for .NET Core named Piranha CMS that is simple to learn, and fast and fun to develop for.

The second new chapter is about ML.NET, which is Microsoft’s library for adding machine learning intelligence to any .NET app. We also added new topics throughout the book covering all the important new C# language features like nullable reference types, simplified switch pattern matching, and default interface methods.

What are the key takeaways from your book?

.NET Core 3.0 has finally overtaken .NET Framework as Microsoft’s best .NET platform. Some features of C# 8.0 are not supported for .NET Framework but are supported for .NET Core. .NET Framework 4.8 is the last major version of that platform.

Developers should learn the .NET Core 3.0 platform today to prepare for Microsoft’s unification of all its .NET variants with .NET 5.0 due in November 2020.

How can this book help those wanting to learn C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0?

This book provides comprehensive, detailed information about the modern .NET Core, along with all three parts that a developer needs to learn; the C# programming language, the .NET class libraries, and the common App Models for building real applications.

Written by an expert educator, author Mark is able to explain a topic in an easy to learn way and to enough depth that the reader understands the concept and has seen a working example. This is all without being overwhelmed by unnecessary detail that can be found online in official documentation if the readers chooses to dig deeper.

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"Not only does Mark Price show you everything you need to get started with C# and .NET Core, the book also covers the ecosystem around it and gives you tons of examples and real-world applications to practice on. An awesome hands-on book that I highly recommend for anyone starting a career on the .NET Core platform."

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Håkan Edling, Founder of Piranha CMS

"Mark Price has delivered the most comprehensive and well-written book on C# 8 that I know of. It is my go-to source, and I recommend it highly."

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Jesse Liberty, Microsoft MVP

About the Author

Mark J. Price is a 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. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in 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. His 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 Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate 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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YLXFGBS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; 4th edition (October 31, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 77465 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 820 pages

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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.

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Eddie L Dunn

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As an amateur developer with a desire to become familiar and proficient with C# and .NET Core 3, I found this book to meet my needs and expectations. It provide thoroughly clear explanations of the language and its underlying technology. Its tutorial method is straightforward with good examples and exercises that are easy to follow and that are explained fully but concisely. The chapter organization seems at first to include too many topic, but after a little time they all make sense together. There are a large number of "Good Practice" comments and "More Information" guides that provides enhancements for even better understanding of coding methods and details for understanding the language better. While the screen shots are a bit small (not easy to read in dim light), the author provides web links to those shots early in the book so that they can be viewed more clearly. For those new to the Visual Studio Code IDE, this is good advice given. All in all, this book is superb for a beginner using C# or someone like me with a reasonably good programming background but desiring to enhance ones skills for modern applications.

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Brian Ayres

A nice resource book to have

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2020

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There are many things to like about this book. It covers most of the fundamentals with syntax while providing suggestions for improving performance. View the table of contents and you'll see he covers a wide range of topics. For additional information on those topics, there are references to additional resources on the web about them (over 360 reference links are included). There is a lot of information provided and a wealth of knowledge to gain from this book. There are plenty of tutorials that he walks you through and he challenges you to perform other tasks on your own to reinforce the learning experience from the chapter. There isn't much I would dislike from the information provided. A couple of links displayed 404, but they were pretty easy to locate where the sites relocated the information. For those who type out the code and step through it, then beware of the intellisense in the VSCode tool. You may find yourself re-typing what the intellisense overwrote. Happy coding.

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Timbo

A complete CRUD application book for learning C#

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2020

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I have worked with a lot of different computer languages in 40 years. With the way C has evolved from ++ to # as well as throwing Xamarin into it, it would great to find a complete book that doesn't skip the fine details from creating, replacing, updating, and deleting records since it can be confusing enough with all the layers of programming and object embedded coding to it. C# isn't COBOL but it can be like Java and converting from Java to C# is a better transition and this book can show you the way.

The majority of C# programming is for database applications and this book reflects that. I finally found a new C# reference manual that didn't come from Microsoft Press.

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Scott Crowder

Excellent balance between beginner and expert level information

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

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I'm an very experienced C# and .NET engineer and picked up this book to get up to speed on the latest updates to the language and the platform. I found the book easy to navigate. The first few chapters cover the basics. The later chapters do a great job of covering the C# 8 and latest .NET Core features. Mark does an excellent job showing the new features and the why & how to you want to use the latest stuff.

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treesa

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020

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I really liked how this book was organized and how the coverage of the core language was very concise and easy to follow. I did get tripped up on delegates and events, but the author did warn about that.

I wish that coverage of web apps included publishing and some mention of containers.

I liked the coverage of CMS, but overall I don’t think. The advanced topics of the chapters toward the end warranted full code walk-thoughs. It would have been more helpful to just signpost to the next levels.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2020

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Haven't gone through this book cover-to-cover, but so far it's been mostly positive. The development steps are clearly illustrated usually with some context as to why things are the way they are and actual code examples. I've got multiple books from Packt publishing on the subject and they're all unique in their own way. I was surprised to see that there's actually a lot of content devoted specifically to UWP apps, which could be a plus if you're looking to transition. The book's physical condition is very good. The text is clear and easy to read. The pages are thick and don't stick together.

Overall, this is a good book but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. If you're just starting out, some of the concepts can be a challenge to understand so be prepared to log some hours figuring things out.

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ConsumeTheInternet

It’s okay.

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2020

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Solid content, but some ways the book is written are difficult to make sense of. An example of this is a section about “how to connect to a database” and nothing in the section mentions how to connect to a database. I found myself questioning several areas of the book like this, that didn’t quite make sense or fully explain a topic. Aside from these weird spots, the content is quite good and “deep” enough to be worth continuing.

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How to obtain slides for this book?

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020

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I do like this book and personally found it interesting. As a Computer Science professor and mostly a a Windows person I would like to obtain supplemental materials (if available) to further assist my Students using Mac for this book. So my question is if there are any useful supplemental materials like slides and if yes - how to obtain them.

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MBros

A way to go for .Net 5 and current C#

Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2020

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First you should buy the next volume in this series so C# 9.0 and .NET 5 which is currently published, I have both. I find it is a good book to point you in the proper direction to bring your C# knowledge to current state and to browse .Net 5 technology. It points you to all kind of references and articles to go deeper on many subjects. I would recommend if you have an experience in programming for the .Net framework but are not current on all those things.

José Israel Flores Guzmán

Muy buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on December 4, 2020

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Me llego 4 días antes de lo indicado, muy bien por esto.
Ya llevo 2 capítulos del libro y esta muy bien explicado, no tienen tantos pasos como otros libros, por lo cual esta enfocado a desarrolladores de sistemas con conocimientos previos y experiencia, que no requiere que los lleven de la mano.

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Wellington Carrilho Reis

Não é para iniciantes

Reviewed in Brazil on August 29, 2020

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Possui boas referências, porém a didática é para pessoas que já possuam alguma base. Para atualização esta adequado.

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Philippe

Enfin un livre adapté aux pro

Reviewed in France on August 24, 2020

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Très intéressant et ne fait pas des dizaines de pages de blabla de remplissage. Mais néophyte s'abstenir. Intéressant pour se mettre à jour si on est déjà dev.

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DMM

Ottimo libro

Reviewed in Italy on May 29, 2020

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Ottimo libro per imparare di C#. Peccato che si perda con pochi contenuti quando si tratta di interfacce grafiche. Pochi esempi. Per il resto davvero consigliato.

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