C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, 6th Edition 6th ed. Edition

Finishing up chapter 8 - an update:Mark Price' presents material in a logical and, usually, easy to follow manner. He covers a breadth of material and consequently can't detail it all, but usually provides pointers to resources for those wanting more. I can't imagine a better resource for someone with a little background but in need of moving beyond brief introductions into the rich world of C# and .Net6. I frequently get excited by the practical way he presents information that I anticipate utilizing on some personal projects. He makes available an excellent errata resource. Two or three times, Mark gave an example which worked well, but I had difficulty grasping why. I suspect that more my learning challenge than his writing. I am more than three quarters of a century old. Still, I'm high on Mark and this book.Earlier I wrote after working through chapter 3:I'm comparing this book to two other book purchase on the subject of C#. (I'm trying to teach myself how to program.) The others did a good job introducing various aspects of the language and how to program. I'm now into chapter three of this book and have found a wealth of information easily accessible and retrieval in the future. I've become a fan of Mark Price and his thoroughness. Entering this book I find additional electronic resources that he makes available which add to the richness of volume. I do not see it as an entry book, but at least an intermediate level. I'm loving the learning.

I can't say if this should be someone's first book on C# but, if you already have some knowledge of programming, I can completely recommend it.I'm about a fifth of the way through the book as I'm refreshing my C# skills after a couple of years away and updating to .NET 6. I've already learned things I never knew before or didn't fully understand. The author's style is down-to-earth and he makes the material very accessible.I'd looked at using Visual Studio Code before but could never get into it when I already knew how to work with VS Community. This book takes you step by step through it and I now enjoy working with it.Mark Price also goes into some of the "gotchas" in the language like the dangers of using the Double type and C#'s use of Banker's rounding. I understand bitwise operations better than I did before. He also points out best practices that come in very handy.I'm looking forward to finishing the book but I can already say it's an excellent resource.

Has lots of good content with simple to follow examples. My complaint is, now that I have read the book, I know there are topics I want to revisit but it is difficult to find the topic again; the index is too thin. As an example, there is no index reference for 'overload'.The book oversells its coverage of MAUI. The book admits in the forward that MAUI was not released in time to include in the book but not all of the content in the book was likewise edited. For example, the back cover states "Build cross-platform apps using .NET MAUI and XAML"; not really true with respect to MAUI.

I am an Analyst/Programmer working on migrating ColdFusion apps over to the .NET framework. I got this book, in conjunction with other materials, to help learn the new ASP.NET Core 6 and C#10 features and changes. This book has helped out a lot already and I’m only on Chapter 2! I highly recommend this book for anyone looking at getting into .NET with C#.

For me it’s great!, because with some courses or YouTube videos, the path of learning might be confused, this is a step-by-step guide that shows important and helpful stuff about dotnet, of course there’s always the official Microsoft documentation, but for some of us (like me) sometimes is hard to get it all at once.

This book is pretty great. It doesn't completely hold your hand through the basics, but assumes you know the basic building blocks of programming already. I haven't quite finished it yet, as I'm working my way through it doing the exercises.

Great

I'm just getting started with the book, but the code samples that seem to be part of a screen shot result in tiny text to try to see. This is exacerbated by the quality of the inking being less than desirable. There are some code samples that are regular text, and those are easier to read.I will say that some screenshots of the project creation screens would be helpful, instead of just trying to describe it in text, and the text not totally mirroring the fields on the screen.Desktop apps covered in the bonus pdf that is available for download from GitHub.