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C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

By : Mark J. Price
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C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

4.4 (5)
By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

This Packt bestseller continues to be the definitive guide to modern cross-platform development. The 9th edition of C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals has been updated to cover the latest features and improvements in .NET 9 and C# 13. You'll start by mastering object-oriented programming, learning how to write, test, and debug functions, and implementing interfaces. You'll then dive into .NET APIs for data management, filesystem operations, and serialization. This latest edition integrates .NET 9 enhancements into its examples: faster exceptions and new LINQ methods. New ASP.NET Core 9 features include optimized static assets, built-in OpenAPI document generation, and the HybridCache. Practical examples, such as building websites and services with ASP.NET Core, have been refreshed to utilize the latest .NET 9 features. The book also introduces Blazor, with its new unified hosting model for unparalleled code reusability. With these updates, you'll learn how to build robust applications and services efficiently and effectively. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to create professional and high-performance web applications using the latest technologies in C# 13 and .NET 9.
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Casting within inheritance hierarchies

Casting between types is subtly different from converting between types. Casting is between similar types, like between a 16-bit integer and a 32-bit integer, or between a superclass and one of its subclasses. Converting is between dissimilar types, such as between text and a number.

For example, if you need to work with multiple types of stream, then instead of declaring specific types of stream like MemoryStream or FileStream, you could declare an array of Stream, the supertype of MemoryStream, and FileStream.

Implicit casting

In the previous example, you saw how an instance of a derived type can be stored in a variable of its base type (or its base’s base type, and so on). When we do this, it is called implicit casting.

Explicit casting

The opposite of implicit casting is explicit casting, and you must use parentheses around the type you want to cast into as a prefix to do it:

  1. In Program.cs, add a statement...
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