C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 8th ed. Edition

A thorough introduction to the subjects, with a lot of extras.

I used to code in C# in the early Y2Ks and purchased this book to bring my knowledge up to date in anticipation of a new project. I was very much impressed with how much the language grew over this time and how much it was modernized. I knew it was conceived on a solid basis back then, and now it is even a more feature complete, multi-platform and versatile language.This book's success specifically lies with Mark being a fascinating author who has had several editions before and the latest one is incremental improvement which expands on the newly added language features as deploying .Net Types.The start is un-intimidating, and as the book ramps up, you hit quite advanced topics.You will learn all the required skills by the market as tracing, debugging and unit testing, data access, Web Dev, LINQ, and so many more, I doubt any other non-.Net language can offer!In general, I particularly liked that the author supports the development using various programming tools, IDEs and vendors, but also various platforms.I highly recommend this book for anybody starting in C# and the .Net - keep the book handy at work.

A great book to get up-to-date with dotnet if you haven't used it in a long time. The book has easy-to-follow examples that explain the new features of the framework while not getting into more complexity or extending the code beyond necessary. It must be said that you won't be making full websites, GUIs or console programs with only the material the book teaches you. The aim of the book is to give you a good understanding of the new features and tools at your disposal as well as explaining the changes made from the previous versions of dotnet and why these changes were made. You should get another book or online course if you want to get into, say, creating a full MVC website. That being said, if you haven't used dotnet for some time and want to get back into it, this book will get you back into dotnet quickly. Highly recommended.

This is a good resource for learning how to get websites to work in blazor if your sites are running on .Net Framework.

I'm not sure who the intended audience of this book is or who could benefit from reading it. I bought this because I thought I needed it before reading the next book in this series, which is what I really wanted to get to. But after having read it, I doubt I'll bother buying anything from this author again.It wasn't terrible. Or at least, it could have been worse. I did learn a thing or two from it although I expected to learn more. I have been programming in C# for many years and needed something to update my C# knowledge and get more into web development.The first half of the book seems targeted at me perhaps, meaning that it goes over a lot of beginner stuff and specifically newer features in C#, but breezes over all topics so fast that it's not really doing an adequate job explaining most things if you don't already kind of know them. It's DEFINITELY not a beginner book for C#. It's NOT a book for someone who has never programmed before.It's not too bad if you follow along with the examples in the book and can already program in C# or at least have read one beginner book to learn C# before this.In the second half you build a sample application that I think is an extremely bad approach to database software design. I have decades of experience as a Database Administrator and I'll leave it at just saying that this is the wrong way to approach relational database software. But it's such a monolithic example that I didn't get a whole lot out of it, and felt it was more a demo of MVC rather than a teaching aide to learn MVC.So, ultimately, it's going to go over the head of most absolute beginners, and didn't go in depth enough with MVC and such in the later half of the book.I gave it 3 stars as I did learn a little from it, especially in terms of getting exposed to some of the newer features of .Net 8. But for the most part I regret buying the book as I felt that I should have been able to find a better book to learn .Net web programming.

The best C# book I have ever read. The author didn't forget any point in his explanation. I love this outstanding book. Thanks Mr. Mark for your special efforts. Appreciate it.

Well written and the author obviously knows his stuff.

As a first-time C# programmer (with some limited prior experience in JavaScript and Java development) I really wanted to believe that this tome would help me with my new idea for an application. Sadly, the author spends a lot of time writing about how the latest version of C# and .NET compare to prior ones, which doesn't help unless you have knowledge of those. By the time I got the chapter on types and OOP, I was writing example code without learning anything: there was no proper explanation as to why I was doing that. If you have experience with C# this might be a great book. Otherwise I will sadly be looking elsewhere.