Название: Programming C# 10: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications (Early Release)
Автор: Ian Griffiths
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2021-12-23
Страниц: 411
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

C# is undeniably one of the most versatile programming languages available to engineers today. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn just how powerful the combination of C# and .NET can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 10.0 and .NET 6 fundamentals and techniques for building cloud, web, and desktop applications.

The C# programming language (pronounced “see sharp”) is used for many kinds of applications, including websites, cloud-based systems, IoT devices, machine learning, desktop applications, embedded controllers, mobile apps, games, and command-line utilities. C#, along with the supporting runtime, libraries, and tools known collectively as .NET, has been center stage for Windows developers for over two decades. Open source implementations added support for other operating systems including Android and iOS, and for the last 5 years, Microsoft’s has also provided cross-platform support enabling applications and services written in C# to run on macOS and Linux, as well as on Windows.

The release of C# 10.0 and its corresponding runtime, .NET 6.0, marks an important milestone: C#’s journey to becoming a fully cross-platform, open-source language is now complete. Although open-source implementations have existed for most of C#’s history, a sea change began in 2016 when Microsoft released .NET Core 1.0, the first platform fully supported by Microsoft for running C# on Linux and macOS as well as Windows. Library and tool support for .NET Core was initially patchy, so Microsoft continued to ship new versions of their older runtime, the closed-source, Windows-only .NET Framework, but five years on, that old runtime is now effectively being retired,1 now that the cross-platform version has comprehensively overtaken it. .NET 5.0 dropped the “Core” from its name to signify that it is now the main event, but it is with .NET 6.0 that the cross-platform version has really arrived, because this version enjoys full Long Term Support (LTS) status. For the first time, the platform-independent version of C# and .NET has superseded the old .NET Framework, and enjoys fully support status.