Modern App Development with C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0

Build amazing cross-device and cross-platform applications—web, mobile, and desktop alike with new C# and .NET Core

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Modern App Development with C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0

What You Will Learn!

Find out about the newest C# 8 features such as async streams and recursive patterns
Create code-first migrations with Entity Framework Core
Build an authentication service using ASP .NET Core Identity
Create a simple, comprehensive RESTFul API with ASP .NET Core 3.0 Web API
Find out about XAML, the mark-up language behind native Windows apps
Build WPF desktop applications that utilize a Web API
Understand Xamarin and Xamarin .Forms
Consume your Web API from a cross-platform mobile application

Description

C# is rapidly approaching the third decade of its newest features. It helps in preventing the null reference exceptions that have riddled object-oriented programming. C# and .NET Core combined give developers a new sense of robustness, flexibility, and efficiency to build amazing applications inside and outside the MS ecosystem. There are several improvements and additions to the language and framework in this upcoming release.

After quickly taking you through C# 8 and how .NET Core 3.0 works, you'll explore topics such as packaging and deploying your own libraries, working with Visual Studio and other relevant tools, and using common libraries to work with collections, performance, databases, and encryption.

The course practically demonstrates the major types of applications that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform—web, mobile, and desktop alike.

About the Author

Dimitris Loukas is a software engineer who is currently part of a growing start-up building a revolutionary referral marketing platform with Node.js, Angular, MySQL, Redis, and Docker. He also develops trading software applications using C#, Aurelia, and TypeScript.

He is an author at Packt and has developed many video tutorials in C#, .NET Core, and TypeScript. He has worked for two start-ups in the past, is active in the open-source community, and loves taking up small side projects. He has developed microservices using C# and Node.js and has also mastered Angular, Aurelia, and Vue.js. He is an early adopter of .NET Core and is fascinated by modern JavaScript and where the web is going.