Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

Key Features

• Use specialized libraries to improve all aspects of your apps, including performance, security, and localization
• Harness the full potential of .NET using cloud-native data stores like Cosmos DB, and unlock scalability, performance, and resilience in your service implementations
• Unleash the capabilities of Blazor Full Stack and.NET MAUI to develop stunning, truly cross-platform apps for web and mobile

Book Description

Elevate your practical C# and .NET skills to the next level with this new edition of Apps and Services with .NET 8.

With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. You’ll dive into the new unified model for Blazor Full Stack and leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile and desktop apps.

This new edition introduces the latest enhancements, including the seamless implementation of web services with ADO.NET SqlClient's native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) support. Popular library coverage now includes Humanizer and Noda Time. There’s also a brand-new chapter that delves into service architecture, caching, queuing, and robust background services.

By the end of this book, you’ll have a wide range of best practices and deep insights under your belt to help you build rich apps and efficient services.

What you will learn

• Familiarize yourself with a variety of technologies to implement services, such as gRPC and GraphQL
• Store and manage data locally and cloud-natively with SQL Server and Cosmos DB
• Use ADO.NET SqlClient to implement web services with native AOT publish support
• Leverage Dapper for improved performance over EF Core
• Implement popular third-party libraries such as Serilog, FluentValidation, Humanizer, and Noda Time
• Explore the new unified hosting model of Blazor Full Stack

Who this book is for

This book is for .NET developers interested in exploring more specialized libraries and implementation fundamentals behind building services and apps.

You’ll need to know your way around .NET and C# quite well before you can dive in, so if you want to work your way up to this book, you can pick up Mark’s other .NET book, C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, first.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server
3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core
4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB
5. Multitasking and Concurrency
6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries
7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs
9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services
10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions
11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core
15. Building Web Components Using Blazor
16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed 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. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.