C# 8 and .NET Core 3.1 Recipes - Second Edition

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Getting Started with New Features of C# 8

Course Overview

Installing Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core

Avoiding State Modifications with Read-Only Members

Writing Less Code with Default Interface Methods

Isolating Groups of Data with Ranges and Indices

Writing Faster Assignments with Null-Coalescing Operators

Chapter 2 : Handling Collections and Data in C# 8

Upgrading Your Switch Clauses with Pattern Matching

Simplifying Using Declarations

Capturing the context with Static Local Functions

Disposable ref Structs and Nullable Reference Types

Adding a Pull-Based Approach to Your Data with Asynchronous Streams

Chapter 3 : Advanced Event Handling and Asynchronicity in C#

Achieving Inter-Component Communication with Delegates and Events

Responding to Events Faster with Action and Function

Avoiding Unnecessary Classes with Anonymous Types

Efficient Event Handling with Lambda Expressions

Treating Collections Like Databases with LINQ

Performing Multithreading and Multitasking with Threads and Tasks

Modifying Method Behavior with Attributes

Chapter 4 : Database-Driven Applications with Entity Framework Core

Writing Our first ORM Model

Keeping Your Schemas Under Version Control with Migrations

One-to-One Relationships between Models

One-to-Many Relationships between Models

Many-to-Many Relationships between Models

Ensuring Concurrency with the Fluent API

Chapter 5 : RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core

Bootstrap Your Web API with the Start-Up Class

Managing Services with Dependency Injection

Connecting EF Core and Build Models

Mapping and Serialize Your Properties

Build an ASP.NET Core Controller

Use ASP.NET Identity to Authenticate Users

Chapter 6 : Razor Pages, Blazor, and WebAssembly

Getting Started with WebAssembly and Blazor

Using JavaScript from within Blazor

Styling a Blazor Application

Bootstrapping Our First Razor Page

Adding Context to Razor Pages

Chapter 7 : Creating a Desktop Application with WPF

Creating a WPF Project

Getting Started with XAML

Positioning Your Components in the XAML Grid

Creating Dynamic User Experience with Properties, Events, and Data Binding

Handling Actions with Event Binding