Mark J. Price (1)

As the title suggests, the book provides an excellent overview of latest C# and .net versions. Using the dotnet cli, the book walks us through many of the dotnet cli features; other books usually cover this through VS itself.

Beginning with Console apps and covering web, web services, Blazor, SignalR and Xamarin, the book is filled with plenty of examples (agreed, I didn't try most of them). It has even more links to articles if you want to dig deeper. I started with one such link regarding the "proper implementation of HTTPClient" from the book and found a few other MSDN docs and other articles that provided a great deal of information on that topic.

Being a C# developer for a quite a few years now, I did scan through the initial few chapters, but had to read all the pages of the later ones. I found these chapters to be very informative and detailed.

A chapter on deployment practices like CICD would have added more value to this book.… (más)