Advanced .NET: Commands, C# Enhancements, Web Apps, and Libraries

Course details

This course takes a deep look into the changes to .NET with the release of .NET 6, the latest release of the Microsoft cross-platform, open-source framework. Instructor Walt Ritscher takes you through changes to .NET commands, language improvements to C++ and C#, web applications like Blazor and Visual Studio, and targeting multiple platforms. He also shows you how to edit code and use the Hot Reload feature to apply changes without restarting the application.

Concepts

Introduction

Explore what's new in .NET 6
What you should know
How deep is this course
My setup and configuration
How to access the sample code on GitHub

Overview

.NET 6 in two minutes
The parts of .NET 6
What about Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

Dotnet Commands

CLI and SDK workloads
Basic dotnet commands
Dotnet workload commands

Language Updates

What languages are updated
Language project templates

C# Enhancements

File-scoped namespaces
Global Using directives
Performance updates for string interpolation
Return type for lambdas

Web Applications

Updates in ASP.NET 6
Template updates (Angular and more)
Hot Reload on web projects
CSS Hot Reload
Blazor error boundary
Async stream JSON - Performance
Async stream JSON - Memory
Log output with HTTP Logging
Minimal API - Concepts and HttpGet
Minimal API - Get data from repository
Minimal API - MapPost, MapPut, and MapDelete
CSS isolation

.NET Libraries

Single file application
DateTime, TimeOnly, DateOnly
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull method
LINQ updates - OrDefault operators
LINQ updates - Chunk
LINQ updates - Zip
Collection updates
Threading - Parallel.ForEachAsync
Threading - PeriodicTimer, the problem
Threading - PeriodicTimer, the solution
JSON updates - Overview
JSON updates - Create JsonSerializerContext classes
JSON updates - Serialize
JSON updates - Writable DOM
More .NET library updates

Other

Visual Studio 2022 updates
Hot Reload in Visual Studio
Hot Reload in the CLI
NuGet package validation
Roslyn Analyzers
Entity Framework
Windows Forms

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