cs11dotnet7/book-links.md

• Chapter 1 - Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
  • Visual Studio 2022 for Windows
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Other C# code editors and platforms
  • .NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks
  • Command Line Interfaces
  • .NET
  • .NET performance improvements
  • Open source and other projects related to .NET
  • Git
  • Help and learning
• Chapter 2 - Speaking C#
  • What's New in C#?
  • C# language version and the journey to C# 11
  • C# language
  • C# implemented proposals
  • C# proposals being worked on
  • Text and number types
  • Console apps and formatting
  • Miscellaneous
• Chapter 3 - Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
  • Operators
  • Branching statements and pattern matching
  • Casting, converting, rounding, and formatting data
  • Handling exceptions
  • Coding problems in interviews
• Chapter 4 - Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
  • Debugging
  • Instrumenting
  • Testing
• Chapter 5 - Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
  • Fields
  • Methods
  • Properties
  • Pattern matching, Records, and Miscellaneous
• Chapter 6 - Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
  • Operator overloading, delegates and events
  • Interfaces and generics
  • Memory, reference and value types
  • Null and nullability
  • Inheritance
  • Language design
• Chapter 7 - Packaging and Distributing .NET Types
  • .NET versions
  • .NET Standard
  • .NET API, packages and frameworks
  • Roslyn, SDKs, and project templates
  • Packaging and publishing
  • Decompiling .NET
  • Porting from .NET Framework to modern .NET
  • Preview features
• Chapter 8 - Working with Common .NET Types
  • Working with numbers
  • Working with text and regular expressions
  • Collections
  • Spans
  • Networking
• Chapter 9 - Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
  • File system, encoding, streams, and serialization
  • JSON
• Chapter 10 - Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
  • Legacy EF 6
  • EF Core
  • EF Core database providers
  • SQLite
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • EF Core models
  • EF Core querying and manipulating
• Chapter 11 - Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
  • LINQ concepts
  • LINQ providers
  • LINQ samples and tools
• Chapter 12 - Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core
  • .NET apps
  • .NET Content Management Systems
  • General web development
  • ASP.NET versions and features
• Chapter 13 - Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Razor Pages and layouts
  • Endpoint routing
• Chapter 14 - Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
  • Setting up and configuring
  • Controllers
  • Models
  • Views
  • Security and privacy
  • Miscellaneous
• Chapter 15 - Building and Consuming Web Services
  • Web service technologies
  • Web service routing
  • Web service clients
  • Documenting web services
  • Securing web services
  • Health checks and reliable web services
• Chapter 16 - Building User Interfaces Using Blazor
  • Blazor hosting models
  • Blazor components
  • Advanced techniques
  • Other resources
• Epilogue
  • Next steps on your C# and .NET learning journey
  • Learn from other Packt books

Chapter 1 - Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

Visual Studio 2022 for Windows

• Download Visual Studio for Windows
• Sign up for a Microsoft account
• Visual Studio for Windows documentation
• Microsoft Visual Studio on YouTube
• Cool features in Visual Studio 2022
• MSBuild and 64-bit Visual Studio 2022
• Create C# apps with Visual Studio
• Comparison of Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code

• Download Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code documentation
• Set up Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code key bindings and shortcuts
  • Windows shortcuts PDF
  • macOS shortcuts PDF
  • Linux shortcuts PDF
• Microsoft's roadmap for Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code for C# Developers | .NET Conf 2022
• Learning with VS Code on Chromebooks
• The History of Visual Studio Code | BDL134

Other C# code editors and platforms

• Stack Overflow survey 2021 - Integrated development environment
• Stack Overflow survey 2019 - Most Popular Development Environments
• Visual Studio for Mac documentation
• GitHub Codespaces
• JetBrains Rider
• Rider documentation
• .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04

.NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks

• The Power of Polyglot Notebooks | .NET Conf 2022
• .NET Interactive documentation
• VS Code Notebooks: A Deep Dive video
• Discuss: File format in the .NET Interactive VS Code extension
• Polyglot Notebooks: Variable Sharing
• Using HTML and JavaScript in .NET Interactive
• .NET Interactive Samples
• Markdown syntax

Command Line Interfaces

• Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience
• .NET Core Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool overview

.NET

• Download .NET SDK
• .NET Conf 2022 Keynote: Welcome to .NET 7 | .NET Conf 2022
• Stack Overflow survey 2021 - Most loved frameworks and libraries
• Themes of .NET
• Microsoft's positioning of .NET Core and .NET Framework
• Microsoft's plans for the journey to one .NET
• Official list of .NET 7 supported operating systems
• .NET Support Policy
• .NET versions
• .NET Uninstall Tool
• How to remove .NET SDKs and runtimes
• ASP.NET Core and EF Core branding for .NET 5
• .NET Optional SDK Workloads
• .NET Runtime
• .NET Release Schedule
• .NET Team Members on Twitter
• dotnet new templates

.NET performance improvements

• Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 7
• Performance Improvements in .NET 7
• Performance Improvements in .NET 6
• Performance Improvements in .NET 5
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core

Open source and other projects related to .NET

• Mono project
• Unity project
• Open source projects to enable WCF and WF to migrate to .NET 5
• CoreWCF 1.1.0 and project templates
• Upgrading a WCF service to .NET 6 with CoreWCF
• CoreWCF 1.0 has been Released, WCF for .NET Core and .NET 5+
• Open source project for Blazor Web Forms components
• OSS Spotlight - Build amazing cross-platform UI for .NET with Avalonia UI!

Git

• Download Git
• Download GitHub Desktop
• Become a master at Git and Open Source

Help and learning

• Raise an issue with the book: Please tell me as much as possible about the scenario e.g. the book section title and page number, your operating system and code editor including version, project file (.csproj), code files, what you expected and what actually happened, and so on.
• .NET Conf 2021 Recap – Videos, Slides, Demos, and More
• Microsoft Learn - Technical Documentation
• Official .NET Blog written by the .NET engineering teams
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You video series on YouTube
• Get better at programming by learning how things work
• Practice .NET anywhere with .NET Fiddle
• Try .NET
• Stack Overflow
• Google Advanced Search
• .NET Videos
• Microsoft Learn Shows – .NET Videos

Chapter 2 - Speaking C#

What's New in C#?

• What's New in C# 11 | .NET Conf 2022
• Early peek at C# 11 features: Allow newlines in the “holes” of interpolated strings, List patterns, Parameter null-checking.
• C# 11 preview: generic math, required members, and more
• What's new in C# 11
• What's new in C# 10
• What's new in C# 9.0
• What's new in C# 8.0
• What's new in C# 7.3
• What's new in C# 7.2
• What's new in C# 7.1
• What's new in C# 7.0
• What's new in C# 6.0
• What's new in C# 5.0
• What's new in C# 4.0
• What's new in C# 3.0
• What's new in C# 2.0

C# language version and the journey to C# 11

• Announcing Open Source C# standardization
• Rosalyn and C# compiler versions
• How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source
• Current status of the C# language
• C# Language Specification 5.0
• Draft proposals for C# Language Specifications for 6.0 and later
• C# 9 & 10 Workshop
• C# language versioning
• The history of C#
• Interview with the C# Boss - Mads Torgersen
• The .NET Docs Show - C# Ask Me Anything 🤯
• EPIC - .NET 6 C# project templates use latest language idioms #3359
• SDK support for implicit namespaces in C# projects #25066

C# language

• C# Reference
• C# Programming Guide
• C# Keywords
• Naming guidelines
• Types (C# Programming Guide)
• Statements, Expressions, and Operators (C# Programming Guide)
• Pattern matching overview
• Patterns (C# reference)

C# implemented proposals

• C# 11
• C# 10
• C# 9
• C# 8
• C# 7.3
• C# 7.2
• C# 7.1
• C# 7.0
• C# 6.0

C# proposals being worked on

• Champion: Simplified parameter null validation code #2145
• Proposal: Semi-Auto-Properties; field keyword #140
• Working Set (of proposals)

Text and number types

• Strings (C# Programming Guide)
• Verbatim strings
• String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6
• Escape sequences
• Floating point numbers
• Why 0.1 does not exist in floating-point numbers
• American Patriot missile disaster

Console apps and formatting

• Console.ReadKey improvements in .NET 7
• Main() and command-line arguments (C# Programming Guide)
• Console Class
• Formatting types
• Composite Formatting

Miscellaneous

• An Arabic programming language

Chapter 3 - Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

Operators

• C# operators
• Truth tables
• Side effects
• Bitwise and shift operators
• Member access operators

Branching statements and pattern matching

• Statement keywords (C# Reference)
• Goto Fail bug
• goto keyword and examples of when it can be used
• Pattern matching
• Patterns and switch expressions

Casting, converting, rounding, and formatting data

• Taking control of rounding
• Format codes for common scenarios
• Casting and type conversions (C# Programming Guide)

Handling exceptions

• Exceptions and Exception Handling
• Exception handling best practices in C#

Coding problems in interviews

• Why can't programmers program?
• FizzBuzz for programming interviews
• Make Better Hiring Decisions With Take-Home Coding Challenges
• The 30-minute guide to rocking your next coding interview
• C# Interview Questions
• Recursion versus interation

Chapter 4 - Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Debugging

• Visual Studio for Windows debugger documentation
• Visual Studio Code debugger
• Instructions for setting up the .NET debugger
• How to debug for absolute beginners

Instrumenting

• System.Diagnostics Namespace
• Debug class
• Trace listeners
• Console log formatting
• Using .env in .NET
• Announcing dotnet monitor in .NET 6

Testing

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Unit testing in .NET
• xUnit.net

Chapter 5 - Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Fields

• Fields (C# programming guide)
• Access modifiers (C# programming guide)
• Enumeration types (C# reference)
• required modifier (C# Reference)

Methods

• Constructors (C# programming guide)
• Methods in C#)
• Deconstructing tuples and other types
• params keyword
• out parameter modifier (C# Reference)
• ref (C# Reference)

Properties

• Encapsulation of fields using properties
• Properties (C# programming guide)
• Using Tuples in C# to Initialize Properties in the Constructor and to Deconstruct Your Object

Pattern matching, Records, and Miscellaneous

• Records (C# reference)
• Tutorial: Use pattern matching to build type-driven and data-driven algorithms
• Comparing struct and class records
• How do I calculate someone's age based on a DateTime type birthday?

Chapter 6 - Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Operator overloading, delegates and events

• Operator (C# reference)
• Symbols that can be overloaded
• Delegates
• Events (C# reference)
• How to: Raise and Consume Events

Interfaces and generics

• Interfaces
• Explicit interface implementations
• Design decisions for default interface implementations
• Default interface implementations tutorial
• Generics (C# Programming Guide)

Memory, reference and value types

• Reference Types (C# Reference)
• Value Types (C# reference)
• Choosing Between Class and Struct
• Conversation about the .NET type system
• Technical details of the internal memory layout of types in .NET
• Garbage collection
• Finalizers (C# Programming Guide)
• Finalizers and disposing
• IDisposable interface:

Null and nullability

• The inventor of null, Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, admits his mistake in a recorded hour-long talk
• The tweet about achieving 80% annotations in .NET 5
• Video to learn how to get rid of null reference exceptions forever
• Nullable value types (C# reference)
• Nullable reference types
• Null-conditional operator
• Null-coalescing operator

Inheritance

• Inheritance (C# Programming Guide)

Language design

• Let's design a new C# language feature! | .NET Conf 2022

Chapter 7 - Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

.NET versions

The official announcement links are useful because they describe the most important new features in each release.

• Announcing .NET 7
• Performance Improvements in .NET 7 | .NET Conf 2022
• Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet
• .NET 5 announcement
• .NET 5.0 Runtime Highlights
• .NET Core 3.1 announcement
• .NET Core 3.0 announcement
• .NET Core 2.2 announcement
• .NET Core 2.0 announcement
• .NET Core 1.1 announcement
• .NET Core 1.0 announcement

.NET Standard

• .NET Standard 2.1 announcement
• Future of .NET Standard
• From .NET Standard to .NET 5

.NET API, packages and frameworks

• Search and browse all .NET APIs
• CoreFX README.md
• How packages and their APIs relate to frameworks
• Currently supported Runtime Identifier (RID) values
• System.IO.FileSystem package details

Roslyn, SDKs, and project templates

• Roslyn compiler
• .NET project SDKs
• global.json overview
• Additional dotnet new templates
• Tutorial: Create an item template

Packaging and publishing

• PDB files
• The PackageReference format
• NuGet packages
• Announcing NuGet 6.0
• .NET Core application publishing overview
• How to Deploy .NET apps to Raspberry Pi
• How to solve a circular reference using an interface
• Semantic versioning

Decompiling .NET

• Is it possible to “decompile” a Windows .exe? Or at least view the Assembly?
• IDA Freeware Download Page

Porting from .NET Framework to modern .NET

• Overview of porting from .NET Framework to .NET Core
• Upgrading from .NET Framework to .NET 7 | .NET Conf 2022
• What .NET Developers ought to know
• Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview
• .NET Upgrade Assistant
• Discover cross-platform issues
• Amazon Porting Assistant for .NET

Preview features

• Preview Features

Chapter 8 - Working with Common .NET Types

Working with numbers

• Numerics types
• The Half type
• nint and nuint types (C# reference)
• nint Struct
• Names for large numbers

Working with text and regular expressions

• String Class
• Regex Class
• .NET regular expressions
• Regular Expression Language – Quick Reference
• Unicode in regular expressions
• Using a regular expression to split a comma-separated string
• To specify a Unicode character, use \u followed by four characters specifying the number of the character. For example, \u00c0 is the À character

Collections

• Collections and Data Structures
• System.Collections Namespace)
• System.Collections.Concurrent Namespace
• What types should I use to pass collections in C#?
• On Abstractions and For-Each Performance in C#

Spans

• Span
• How spans work internally

Networking

• .NET 6 Networking Improvements

Chapter 9 - Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

File system, encoding, streams, and serialization

• File System and the Registry (C# Programming Guide)
• Character encoding in .NET
• How pipelines help with I/O performance
• Serialization (C#)
• Serializing to Files, TextWriters, and XmlWriters

JSON

• Newtonsoft Json.NET
• System.Text.Json APIs
• What’s next for System.Text.Json?
• What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 7
• Issues solved by the new JSON APIs, including JamesNK's comments
• How to migrate from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json

Chapter 10 - Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

Legacy EF 6

• Entity Framework 6.3 and its .NET Core 3.0 and later support

EF Core

• EF Core documentation
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 RC2: JSON Columns
• New features in EF Core 7
• New features in EF Core 6
• New features in EF Core 5
• New features in Entity Framework Core 3.x
• Plans for Entity Framework Core 6.0 revealed as Microsoft admits it is unlikely to match Dapper for performance
• Entity Framework Community Standup - Performance Tuning an EF Core App

EF Core database providers

• EF Core database providers
• Devart database providers
• Document Database Providers for Entity Framework Core

SQLite

• Download SQLite
• SQL statements supported by SQLite
• Download SQLiteStudio
• Check the latest EF Core Sqlite NuGet package version

Microsoft SQL Server

• SQL Server downloads
• Use Visual Studio Code to create and run Transact-SQL scripts
• .NET Interactive with SQL!| .NET Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

EF Core models

• EF Core model conventions
• Data seeding
• Humanizer library
• Scaffolding
• Deep Dive into Many-to-Many: A Tour of EF Core 5.0
• Naming Conventions for Entity Framework Core Tables and Columns
• Table-per-concrete-type (TPC) inheritance mapping
• T4 goodness with Entity Framework Core 7 | .NET Conf 2022

EF Core querying and manipulating

• Filtered include
• Simple logging
• Query tags
• Loading patterns
• Pooling database contexts

Chapter 11 - Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

LINQ concepts

• Expression trees
• LINQ comprehension syntax
• LINQ in C#
• New LINQ extensions in .NET 6 and benchmarks

LINQ providers

• EF Core LINQ queries no longer evaluated at client
• Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)
• LINQ to XML Overview (C#)

LINQ samples and tools

• 101 LINQ Samples
• LINQPad

Chapter 12 - Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

.NET apps

• .NET Architecture Guides

.NET Content Management Systems

• Piranha CMS
• Umbraco CMS
• Optimizely Comtent Cloud (CMS 12)
• Orchard Core
• OSS Spotlight - Build websites with a modern ASP.NET Core CMS – Orchard Core

General web development

• Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Third Edition
• Bootstrap
• WebSocket
• MessagePack
• WebAssembly
• TypeScript
• Content Delivery Network (CDN)

ASP.NET versions and features

The official announcement links are useful because they describe the most important new features in each release.

• State of ASP.NET Core | .NET Conf 2022
• ASP.NET Core 7.0 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 6.0 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 5.0 announcement
• Blazor WebAssembly announcement
• ASP.NET Core 3.1 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 3.0 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 2.2 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 2.1 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 2.0 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 1.1 announcement
• ASP.NET Core 1.0 announcement

Chapter 13 - Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

ASP.NET Core

• ASP.NET Core fundamentals
• Static files in ASP.NET Core
• HttpContext class
• Kestrel web server
• ASP.NET Core hosting environments
• Free TLS/SSL certificates

Razor Pages and layouts

• Introducing the new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022
• Introduction to Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core
• Razor syntax reference for ASP.NET Core
• Layout in ASP.NET Core
• Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET Core Razor Pages with EF Core
• DbContext Lifetime, Configuration, and Initialization
• The <partial> tag helper
• Visual Studio Code Compact Folders feature

Endpoint routing

• Simple examples of Run, Map, and Use
• Automatically visualize your endpoints
• Configuring the HTTP pipeline with middleware
• DEEP DIVE: HOW IS THE ASP.NET CORE MIDDLEWARE PIPELINE BUILT?

Chapter 14 - Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

Setting up and configuring

• Overview of ASP.NET Core MVC
• Default configuration of web hosts
• Dependency injection for ASP.NET Core
• Configuring middleware
• Announcing YARP 1.0 Release

Controllers

• Handle requests with controllers in ASP.NET Core MVC
• Response caching
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.OutputCaching Namespace
• How cache busting using query strings works

Models

• Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
• Create your own model binders by implementing the IModelBinder interface
• Model validation
• Tutorial: Get started with EF Core in an ASP.NET MVC web app

Views

• HtmlHelper class
• Views in ASP.NET Core MVC
• Why it is good to put