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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

By : Mark J. Price
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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

4.4 (74)
By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

This latest edition of the bestselling Packt series will give you a solid foundation to start building projects using modern C# and .NET with confidence. You'll learn about object-oriented programming; writing, testing, and debugging functions; and implementing interfaces. You'll take on .NET APIs for managing and querying data, working with the fi lesystem, and serialization. As you progress, you'll explore examples of cross-platform projects you can build and deploy, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core. This latest edition integrates .NET 8 enhancements into its examples: type aliasing and primary constructors for concise and expressive code. You'll handle errors robustly through the new built-in guard clauses and explore a simplified implementation of caching in ASP.NET Core 8. If that's not enough, you'll also see how native ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler publish lets web services reduce memory use and run faster. You'll work with the seamless new HTTP editor in Visual Studio 2022 to enhance the testing and debugging process. You'll even get introduced to Blazor Full Stack with its new unified hosting model for unparalleled web development flexibility.
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Using LINQ with EF Core

We have looked at LINQ queries that filter and sort, but none that change the shape of the items in the sequence. This is called projection because it's about projecting items of one shape into another shape. To learn about projection, it is best to have some more complex types to work with, so in the next project, instead of using string sequences, we will use sequences of entities from the Northwind sample database that you were introduced to in Chapter 10, Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core.I will give instructions to use SQLite because it is cross-platform, but if you prefer to use SQL Server then feel free to do so. I have included some commented code to enable SQL Server if you choose.

Creating a console app for exploring LINQ to Entities

First, we must create a console app and Northwind database to work with:

  1. Use your preferred code editor to add a new Console App / console project named LinqWithEFCore to the Chapter11 solution.
  2. In the...

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