Summary
.NET Core in Action shows .NET developers how to build professional software applications with .NET Core. Learn how to convert existing .NET code to work on multiple platforms or how to start new projects with knowledge of the tools and capabilities of .NET Core.

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About the Technology
.NET Core is an open source framework that lets you write and run .NET applications on Linux and Mac, without giving up on Windows. Built for everything from lightweight web apps to industrial-strength distributed systems, it's perfect for deploying .NET servers to any cloud platform, including AWS and GCP.

About the Book
.NET Core in Action introduces you to cross-platform development with .NET Core. This hands-on guide concentrates on new Core features as you walk through familiar tasks like testing, logging, data access, and networking. As you go, you'll explore modern architectures like microservices and cloud data storage, along with practical matters like performance profi ling, localization, and signing assemblies.

What's Inside

Choosing the right tools

Testing, profiling, and debugging

Interacting with web services

Converting existing projects to .NET Core

Creating and using NuGet packages

About the Reader
All examples are in C#.

About the Author
Dustin Metzgar is a seasoned developer and architect involved in numerous .NET Core projects. Dustin works for Microsoft.

Table of Contents

Why .NET Core?

Building your first .NET Core applications

How to build with .NET Core

Unit testing with xUnit

Working with relational databases

Simplify data access with object-relational mappers

Creating a microservice

Debugging

Performance and profiling

Building world-ready applications

Multiple frameworks and runtimes

Preparing for release

appendix A - Frameworks and runtimes

appendix B - xUnit command-line options

appendix C - What's in the .NET Standard Library?

appendix D - NuGet cache locations