Apps and Services with .NET 7

815 Pages·2022·18.763 MB·English

by  Mark J. Price

Apps and Services with .NET 7
First Edition
Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other
enterprise technologies
Mark J. Price
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Apps and Services with .NET 7
First Edition
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Contributors
About the author
Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions,
with over 20 years of experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming
exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed
to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses
for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught “train-the-trainer”
classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up to speed on C# and .NET. Mark has spent most of his
career training a wide variety of students, from 16-year-old apprentices to 70-year-old retirees, with
the majority being professional developers. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. degree.
About the reviewers
Damir Arh has many years of experience with software development and maintenance, from com-
plex enterprise software projects to modern consumer-oriented mobile applications. Although he has
worked with a wide spectrum of different languages, his favorite language remains C#. In his drive
towards better development processes, he is a proponent of test-driven development, continuous
integration, and continuous deployment. He shares his knowledge by speaking at local user groups
and conferences, blogging, and writing articles. He has received the prestigious Microsoft MVP award
for developer technologies 12 times in a row. In his spare time, he’s always on the move: hiking, geo-
caching, running, and rock climbing.
Tomasz Pęczek is a passionate developer, architect, blogger, speaker, and OSS contributor/maintainer
in the .NET and Azure space. His commitment to sharing his knowledge and experiences has earned
him a Microsoft MVP title in the Developer Technologies category.
Throughout his 18+ years of professional career, he has been designing and developing software that
powers companies across the healthcare, banking, e-learning, and e-discovery industries. Currently,
he is a Technical Fellow at Predica, where he focuses on ensuring that projects deliver true business
value for clients and adhere to the highest industry standards.
His blog is at https://www.tpeczek.com/, and he can be found on Twitter as @tpeczek.

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Quick Chapter Reference
Chapter 1: Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 1
Chapter 2: Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server 43
Chapter 3: Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 113
Chapter 4: Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency 151
Chapter 5: Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries 189
Chapter 6: Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically 225
Chapter 7: Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 249
Chapter 8: Protecting Your Data and Applications 285
Chapter 9: Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 319
Chapter 10: Exposing Data via the Web Using OData 361
Chapter 11: Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 389
Chapter 12: Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 429
Chapter 13: Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 457
vi Quick Chapter Reference
Chapter 14: Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 483
Chapter 15: Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 525
Chapter 16: Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly 569
Chapter 17: Leveraging Open-Source Blazor Component Libraries 613
Chapter 18: Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 647
Chapter 19: Integrating .NET MAUI Apps with Blazor and Native Platforms 707
Chapter 20: Introducing the Survey Project Challenge 751
Chapter 21: Epilogue 761
Index 763
Table of Contents
Preface xxv
Chapter 1: Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 1
Introducing this book and its contents ...................................................................................... 2
A companion book to continue your learning journey • 2
What you will learn in this book • 3
My learning philosophy • 3
Fixing my mistakes • 3
Project naming and port numbering conventions • 4
Treating warnings as errors • 5
App and service technologies .................................................................................................... 6
Building websites and apps using ASP.NET Core • 6
Building web and other services • 7
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) • 7
Summary of choices for services • 8
Building Windows-only apps • 9
Understanding legacy Windows application platforms • 9
Understanding modern .NET support for legacy Windows platforms • 10
Building cross-platform mobile and desktop apps • 10
.NET MAUI alternatives • 11
Understanding Uno platform • 11
Understanding Avalonia • 11
Setting up your development environment .............................................................................. 12
Choosing the appropriate tool and application type for learning • 12
Using Visual Studio Code for cross-platform development • 12
Using GitHub Codespaces for development in the cloud • 13
Using Visual Studio for Mac for general development • 13