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

Learn about the changes and new features in the latest release of .NET 6 from Microsoft.

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

1. Overview

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

2. Dotnet Commands

• CLI and SDK workloads
• Basic dotnet commands
• Dotnet workload commands

3. Language Updates

• What languages are updated?
• Language project templates

4. C# Enhancements

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

5. 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

6. .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

7. Other

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

Continue Your Journey

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