Become a professional .NET developer by learning expert techniques for building enterprise-grade applications

Key Features

• Explore the advanced features of C# and .NET 5 to enhance your code and productivity
• Follow clear and easy instructions for building an end-to-end enterprise application
• Learn how to build scalable web applications and host them on the cloud

Book Description

.NET Core is one of the most popular programming platforms in the world for an increasingly large community of developers thanks to its excellent cross-platform support. This book will show you how to confidently use the features of .NET 5 with C# 9 to build robust enterprise applications.

Throughout the book, you'll work on creating an enterprise app and adding a key component to the app with each chapter, before finally getting it ready for testing and deployment. You'll learn concepts relating to advanced data structures, the Entity Framework Core, parallel programming, and dependency injection. As you progress, you'll cover various authentication and authorization schemes provided by .NET Core to make your apps and APIs secure. Next, you'll build web apps using ASP.NET Core 5 and deploy them on the cloud while working with various cloud components using Azure. The book then shows you how to use the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and C# 9 to simplify developer tasks, and also explores tips and tricks in Visual Studio 2019 to improve your productivity. Later, you'll discover various testing techniques such as unit testing and performance testing as well as different methods to deploy enterprise apps.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create enterprise apps using the powerful features of .NET 5 and deploy them on the cloud.

What you will learn

• Design enterprise apps by making the most of the latest features of .NET 5
• Discover different layers of an app, such as the data layer, API layer, and web layer
• Explore end-to-end architecture, implement an enterprise web app using .NET and C# 9, and deploy the app on Azure
• Focus on the core concepts of web application development such as dependency injection, caching, logging, configuration, and authentication, and implement them in .NET 5
• Integrate the new .NET 5 health and performance check APIs with your app
• Understand how .NET 5 works and contribute to the .NET 5 platform

Who this book is for

If you are a developer, architect, or senior programmer who wants to leverage the features of .NET 5 and the C# language, as well as grasp essential techniques to build your skills, then this C# .NET 5 book is for you. Beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the .NET framework and C# programming is required to understand the concepts covered in this book more effectively.

Table of Contents

1. Designing and Architecting the Enterprise Application
2. Introducing .NET 5 Core and Standard
3. Introducing C# 9
4. Threading and Asynchronous Operations
5. Dependency Injection in .NET
6. Configuration in .NET Core
7. Logging in .NET 5
8. Understanding Caching
9. Working with Data in .NET 5
10. Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web API
11. Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web Application
12. Understanding Authentication
13. Understanding Authorization
14. Health and Diagnostics
15. Testing
16. Deploying the Application in Azure

About the Authors

Ravindra Akella works as a senior consultant at Microsoft and has more than 14 years of software development experience. Specializing in .NET and web-related technologies, his current role involves the end-to-end ownership of products right from architecture to delivery. He has led the software architecture design, development, and delivery of large, complex solutions using the Azure cloud and related technologies. He is a tech-savvy developer who is passionate about embracing new technologies. He has delivered talks and sessions on Azure and other technologies at international conferences. He has also authored books on .NET Core 3.0 before.

Arun Kumar Tamirisa is a senior consultant currently working at Microsoft and has more than 15 years of IT experience in the design, development, and deployment of enterprise applications using the Microsoft .NET and Azure technology stacks. He has extensive experience in using popular client-side libraries such as Angular and Knockout. js and server-side technologies such as ASP.NET Core, web APIs, C#, and SQL Server. He is passionate about learning about, working on, and contributing toward developing solutions that solve complex problems.

Suneel Kumar Kunani is a passionate developer who strives to learn something new every day. With over 16 years of experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies, he works on architecting and building mission-critical, highly scalable, and secure solutions at Microsoft. He loves to teach and evangelize about the best practices in building distributed cloud solutions.

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu is a Microsoft certified professional and works at Microsoft as a software engineering manager. He has 16+ years of software development experience on the .NET technology stack. His current role involves designing systems that are resilient to the iterations and changes required by the needs of enterprise businesses, validating architectural innovations, delivering solutions with high quality, managing the end-to-end ownership of products, and building diverse teams with capabilities to fulfill customer objectives. He is passionate about creating reusable components and identifying opportunities to make a product better.