Bestselling author Mark Price is back to guide you through the coolest and most common technologies a .NET developer should know: Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, OData, SignalR, Azure Functions, and more!

Key Features

• Build services using a variety of technologies including Web API, OData, gRPC, GraphQL, SignalR, and Azure Functions
• Learn how to use specialized libraries to improve all aspects of your applications, including performance and localization
• Leverage .NET MAUI to develop cross-platform desktop and mobile apps with ease

Book Description

Apps and Services with .NET 7 is for developers who want to kick their C# and .NET understanding up a gear by learning the practical skills and knowledge they need to build real-world applications and services. It covers specialized libraries that will help you monitor and improve performance, secure your data and applications, and internationalize your code and apps.

With chapters that put a variety of technologies into practice, including Web API, OData, gRPC, GraphQL, SignalR and Azure Functions, this book will give you a broader scope of knowledge than other books that often focus on only a handful of .NET technologies. It covers the latest developments, libraries, and technologies that will help keep you up to date.

You’ll also leverage .NET MAUI to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android as well as desktop apps for Windows and macOS.

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

• Learn how to build more efficient, secure, and scalable apps and services
• Leverage specialized .NET libraries to improve your applications
• Implement popular third-party libraries like Serilog and FluentValidation
• Build cross-platform apps with .NET MAUI and integrate with native mobile features
• Get familiar with a variety of technologies for implementing services like gRPC and GraphQL
• Explore Blazor WebAssembly and use open-source Blazor component libraries
• Store and manage data locally and in the cloud with SQL Server and Cosmos DB

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, pick up Mark’s other .NET book, C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, first.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
2. Working with Data Using SQL Server
3. Working with Data Using Azure Cosmos DB
4. Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking
5. Implementing Popular Third Party Libraries
6. Working with Roslyn, Reflection and Expression Trees
7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization
8. Protecting Your Data and Applications
9. Building and Securing Web Services with Minimal APIs
10. Exposing Data via the Web Using OData
11. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL
12. Building Efficient Services Using gRPC
13. Broadcasting Realtime Communication Using SignalR
14. Building Serverless Services Using Azure Functions
15. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core
16. Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly
17. Leveraging Open Source Blazor Component Libraries
18. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI
19. Implementing .NET MAUI Mobile Features

(N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication)