C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code

This book is real "whirlwind tour" of modern .Net. It covers a huge range of the features of the .Net ecosystem in a single book. It strikes a good balance of covering material in enough depth to be at least somewhat useful without bogging the reader down in a lot of detail that might not be relevant to all situations. Since most real-world projects require a greater degree of understanding of certain specific topics than this book could possibly cover, this book offers many helpful pointers to resources for more in-depth learning throughout.For a beginning developer, I would say that this book would be useful as a basic road-map to the skills required to become proficient. It confers just enough skill to get the reader started. However, it is not a complete course of training in any of the topic covered. That would be impossible. Object-Oriented Programming alone is a field that nobody other than a few gifted students could expect to gain proficiency in without a substantial, months-long effort in two semesters of college, or self-study with a dedicated text on the topic. And, even after that, getting good at it requires years of experience.If you're already an experienced developer, but you're new to .Net, or you're coming back to it after a long time away, this book is a great way of quickly familiarizing yourself with the terrain so that you can jump in and start being productive in the shortest time possible.

Overall, I really like book. It took me from knowing nothing about dotNET to being able to use dotNET 5 and creating an MVC web application. In fact, I find this easier than trying to use dotNET Framework 4.7, which I am having to go back and learn because some servers still run ancient versions of dotNET. (Just upgrade your servers to dotNET 5 and make everyone's life easier because dotNET Framework is no longer supported by Microsoft.) Mark Price demonstrates and explains parts of the framework of dotNET 5 in examples using the Northwind examples. The other nice thing about this book is that he covers the C# language, too, but the real pay off is the chapters about the framework of dotNET 5 because that was the part I didn't really know.

This is is a book that covers the newest C# version for multiple platforms but most importantly it covers material not covered in other books. He cover how to use GitHub, NuGet, Security, Database and of course web development as well as multi-tasking. He includes reference material for those who wish to delve deeper into a particular topic as well. If you want to learn C#, this uses Visual Studio Code but it gives beginners of C# a great understanding of the language and what you can do with it. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to increase their understanding of programming and want to learn beyond some of the basic topics covered in text books. A well written book overall.

I'm a mid-level web developer who wanted to learn about c# deeply. The book is very interesting and easy to read. I would suggest this book to those who already got some understanding of programming or have good technical thinking. I would prefer the book could be a color painted and highlighted generic types classes objects :DInterested to buy the author's other books too.

As someone new to the world of programming and coding this was my entryway drug into all of it. I love this book and it's helped me learn how structures work within the programs and how to build starting from square one.

I would really recommend it to go through lots of areas in .NET 5 and C#9.Very much in details and with decent set of exercises.

Not theory. Not like the evolution of prototype chaining to hybrid prototypical inheritance in Java Script, or the precise structure of an XML node in XSLT. He'll tout .NET 5 as the technology to use as opposed to the depreciated .NET framework to use on one page and, on the next list a comparison chart -- so we believe him. Flipping through, there are *numerous* code examples yet it's not a "my first C# book."I'm not saying there isn't a wealth of information in this book that I would have trouble tracking down in a single source, just that parts of it waste your time.He also lacks the "I'll look you in the eye, assume you're as smart as I am and, if I lose you, you'll have to go back and read it again" writing style I like. I don't want to read a 700 page RFC anymore than you but just because I'm too busy to acquire this information however he did doesn't mean I'm less competent.He could be a college professor. That would explain it.

I got this book because I was required to take a class on .NET and the textbook was difficult to understand. I think that this book covered the subject better than the textbook that cost a whole lot more.