Introducing .NET 6: Getting Started with Blazor, MAUI, Windows App SDK, Desktop Development, and Containers

Table of Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Tour of .NET 6
	.NET 6
	Version Support
	Supported Versions
	A Unified Platform
	Roadmap
	Supported Operating Systems
	Command Line Interface
	Desktop Development
	Blazor
	MAUI
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 2: Runtimes and Desktop Packs
	.NET 6 Architecture
	Runtimes
		CoreCLR
		Mono
		WinRT
	Managed Execution Process
	Desktop Packs
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 3: Command Line Interface
	Dotnet New
	Dotnet Restore
		NuGet.config
	Dotnet Build
	Dotnet Publish
	Dotnet Run
	Dotnet Test
	Using the CLI in GitHub Actions
	Other Commands
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 4: Desktop Development
	WinAPI
	WinForms
		STAThread
		WinForms Startup
			DPI Mode
			Responding to Scale Events
			Visual Styles
			Text Rendering
		The Message Loop
		The Form Designer
			Responding to Events
	WPF
		WPF Startup
		XAML Layout
		Visual Tree
		Data Binding
	Windows App SDK
		Building a Windows App SDK application
		Using Windows APIs with Windows App SDK
		Packaging
	Migrating to .NET 6
		Upgrade Assistant
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 5: Blazor
	Blazor WebAssembly
		Creating a Blazor Wasm Project
		Blazor Progressive Web Apps
		Exploring the Blazor Client Project
		Blazor in .NET 6
		Blazor Component System
		Creating Blazor Pages
		Running a Blazor App
	Blazor Server
		SignalR
	Blazor Desktop
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 6: MAUI
	Project Structure
	Exploring MAUI
		The Cross-Platform World
	Application Lifecycle
	MVVM
	MVVM Toolkit
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 7: ASP.NET Core
	Model-View-Controller
		Routing
		Views
		Controllers
	Web API
		Controller-Based APIs
		Minimal APIs
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 8: Microsoft Azure
	Web Apps
		Creating an App Service
	Static Web Apps
	Web App for Containers
		Docker
	Azure Functions
		Deploying Azure Functions
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 9: Application Architecture
	Record Types
	Monolith Architecture
	Microservices
	Container Orchestration
		Kubernetes
		Docker Compose
	Dapr
		Installing Dapr
		Dapr State Management
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 10: .NET Compiler Platform
	Roslyn
		Compiler API
		Diagnostic API
		Scripting API
		Workspace API
		Syntax Tree
		Roslyn SDK
	Creating an Analyzer
	Source Generators
		Writing a Source Generator
		Debugging Source Generators
	Wrapping Up
Chapter 11: Advanced .NET 6
	Garbage Collector
		The Heap
		The Stack
		Garbage Collection
	A Look at the Threadpool
	Async in .NET 6
		Await/Async
		Cancellations
		WaitAsync
	Conclusion
Index