Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

I highly recommend Mark Price's book "Apps and Services with .NET 8" from Packt publishing. I purchased this book in May and have slowly been going through it. Having worked with .NET since 2001 in Beta, this was a great way to review the basics, which once were complicated. It also gave me the opportunity to go through multiple example projects reminding me of some new C# syntax I have not implemented in my work yet. He also introduces many of the newer .NET ecosystem items such as gRPC, GraphQL, Cosmos DB, Dapper, Maui, and Blazor.If you just learned .NET since maybe 6 or 7, this book may not be for you. If you are just beginning, you might want to look at his C# book.The author has been updating this book and a couple of others with each new release of .NET ( #9 just become available in November, 2024). He is already working on the .NET 10 content. Once you get into the book, you will be introduced to some repos and Discord locations to see changes and communicate with the community.Thanks Mark! Keep at it.

I started with . Net since 2002 learning from Microsoft but change is constant.I have a busy server farm and this year the coding is changing from vb to C#.I didn't touch razor when it was released because it was going to make website management disorganized. I also had concerns with compliances.Thanks to using Redis on Nextcloud and building Raspberry Pi clusters to utilize secure caching in existing websites, it has kept things busyI have to get the whole series just to utilize the changes for all 12 web apps.

After I caught up on the latest advancements in .Net from "C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals", also by Mark J. Price, I converged onto getting familiar with the basics and more advanced topics of the enterprise programming.First off: the author really honed the topics and added more useful content.Secondly, the book contains in my view most of the relevant today to a programmer topics as developing microservices (gRPC only is covered), Blazor (e.g. to develop SPAs), SignalR for Realtime broadcasts over the net, mobile apps with MAUI, and this is while getting knowing the multitasking and concurrency, it is all after giving a solid intro into managing the data and building your Entity Framework Model, this is very important because any app will rotate around its data.I also liked the author making comments on how the language improved over the most recent versions.Lastly, in terms of the shortcomings or things to add, is the missing about what Azure has to offer.A short post-amble: I called this book's main topic of interest "enterprise programming", but it is solely my opinion. It just seemed to me that this book is most relevant to the enterprise programming (versa gaming or Blockchain development).

Had purchased earlier version of this book and liked it, wanted to upgrade to a later version. Exceeded my expectations.

The chapter on scaffolding is good, and shows you how to do it without writing code. The chapter on Web Services is a very high overview, and I wish it could have gone into more detail. It has a very high level overview on web development, and I wish it went into more detail.

The examples all work and are great for allowing experimentation with further little effort. The text is easy to follow, and I find myself learning effortlessly.

Thank You, good read ahead.!

Completely fine and well designed. Full of usable and sharp tips. Very good book