Improvements & Errata - list of corrections

Apps and Services with .NET 7, First Edition

.NET 7 reached its end-of-life on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. I recommend upgrading to .NET 8 as soon as possible.

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Available on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle editions from November 15, 2022. My author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-J-Price/e/B071DW3QGN/

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Code solutions for Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code

If you have Visual Studio 2022 for Windows and Visual Studio Code and its C# extension installed on the same computer, the build process can sometimes conflict. This is because Visual Studio has its own non-standard build server that is different from the standard build server used by .NET SDK. Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code also use different file types to group projects. So I have duplicated and separated solution code for each product:

/vs4win: Visual Studio 2022 for Windows solution files and projects for each chapter
/vscode: Visual Studio Code workspace files and projects for each chapter

Sibling books

GitHub repository for C# 11 and .NET 7 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

Technologies covered in the book

Chapters

Chapter 1 Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
Chapter 2 Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server
Chapter 3 Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB
Chapter 4 Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency
Chapter 5 Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries
Chapter 6 Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically
Chapter 7 Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
Chapter 8 Protecting Your Data and Applications
Chapter 9 Building and Securing Web Services with Minimal APIs
Chapter 10 Exposing Data via the Web Using OData
Chapter 11 Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
Chapter 12 Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC
Chapter 13 Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR
Chapter 14 Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions
Chapter 15 Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core
Chapter 16 Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly
Chapter 17 Leveraging Open-Source Blazor Component Libraries
Chapter 18 Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI
Chapter 19 Integrating .NET MAUI Apps with Blazor and Native Platforms
Chapter 20 Introducing the Survey Project Challenge

Bonus content

Chapters 7 and 12, and the appendix and color figures are available to download as PDFs:

Important

Corrections for typos and other mistakes and improvements like refactoring code. Useful links to other related material.

Microsoft Certifications

Announcing the New Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-foundational-csharp-certification/

Microsoft used to have professional exams and certifications for developers that covered skills like C# and ASP.NET. Sadly, they have retired them all. These days, the only developer-adjacent exams and certifications are for Azure or Power Platform, as you can see from the certification poster: https://aka.ms/traincertposter

Microsoft .NET community support

Interviews with me

Podcast interviews with me:

Written interviews with me:

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