Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, and Episerver Certified Developer, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience. Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams, and he specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Currently, Mark creates and delivers classroom and e-learning training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. He is an Episerver Certified Developer (ECD) on Episerver CMS. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc Hons. degree from the University of Bristol, UK. Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solution architect with over 14 years of software development experience. He has worked in organizations across Pakistan, the USA, and the Middle East. Currently, he is working for a government entity based in Dubai. A Microsoft MVP, he specializes mainly in Microsoft .NET, the cloud and web development. He has published technical articles on MSDN, TechNet, personal blog, and has authored two other books published by Packt: JavaScript for .NET Developers and Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core.

• Table of ContentsControlling the Flow and Converting Types Writing, Debugging, and Testing FunctionsBuilding Your Own Types with Object-OrientedImplementing Interfaces and Inheriting ClassesUnderstanding and Packaging .NET Standard TypesUsing Common .NET Standard TypesWorking with Files, Streams, and SerializationImproving Performance and Scalability Using MultitaskingBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor PagesBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVCBuilding Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET CoreBuilding Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent DesignBuilding Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.FormsUnderstanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring PerformanceData Structures and Writing Optimized Code in C#Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application PerformanceMemory Management Techniques in .NET CoreMicroservices Architecture

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, and Episerver Certified Developer, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience. Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams, and he specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Currently, Mark creates and delivers classroom and e-learning training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. He is an Episerver Certified Developer (ECD) on Episerver CMS. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc Hons. degree from the University of Bristol, UK. Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solution architect with over 14 years of software development experience. He has worked in organizations across Pakistan, the USA, and the Middle East. Currently, he is working for a government entity based in Dubai. A Microsoft MVP, he specializes mainly in Microsoft .NET, the cloud and web development. He has published technical articles on MSDN, TechNet, personal blog, and has authored two other books published by Packt: JavaScript for .NET Developers and Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core.

• Table of ContentsControlling the Flow and Converting Types Writing, Debugging, and Testing FunctionsBuilding Your Own Types with Object-OrientedImplementing Interfaces and Inheriting ClassesUnderstanding and Packaging .NET Standard TypesUsing Common .NET Standard TypesWorking with Files, Streams, and SerializationImproving Performance and Scalability Using MultitaskingBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor PagesBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVCBuilding Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET CoreBuilding Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent DesignBuilding Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.FormsUnderstanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring PerformanceData Structures and Writing Optimized Code in C#Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application PerformanceMemory Management Techniques in .NET CoreMicroservices Architecture

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, and Episerver Certified Developer, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience. Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams, and he specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Currently, Mark creates and delivers classroom and e-learning training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. He is an Episerver Certified Developer (ECD) on Episerver CMS. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc Hons. degree from the University of Bristol, UK. Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solution architect with over 14 years of software development experience. He has worked in organizations across Pakistan, the USA, and the Middle East. Currently, he is working for a government entity based in Dubai. A Microsoft MVP, he specializes mainly in Microsoft .NET, the cloud and web development. He has published technical articles on MSDN, TechNet, personal blog, and has authored two other books published by Packt: JavaScript for .NET Developers and Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core.

• Table of ContentsControlling the Flow and Converting Types Writing, Debugging, and Testing FunctionsBuilding Your Own Types with Object-OrientedImplementing Interfaces and Inheriting ClassesUnderstanding and Packaging .NET Standard TypesUsing Common .NET Standard TypesWorking with Files, Streams, and SerializationImproving Performance and Scalability Using MultitaskingBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor PagesBuilding Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVCBuilding Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET CoreBuilding Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent DesignBuilding Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.FormsUnderstanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring PerformanceData Structures and Writing Optimized Code in C#Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application PerformanceMemory Management Techniques in .NET CoreMicroservices Architecture