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Improvements & Errata - list of corrections

.NET 6 has started its maintenance support period. During the maintenance period, releases are updated to mitigate security vulnerabilities, only. The maintenance support period is the final 6 months of support for any release (STS or LTS). After the maintenance period ends, end of life is reached and the release is out of support. .NET 6 will reach its end-of-life on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. I recommend upgrading to .NET 8 as soon as possible.

C# 10 and .NET 6 - Modern Cross-Platform Development, Sixth Edition

Published on Tuesday, November 9, 2021. Order today from Packt, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com.au, and all good book stores. My author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-J-Price/e/B071DW3QGN/

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Code solutions for Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code

If you have Visual Studio 2022 for Windows and Visual Studio Code and its C# extension installed on the same computer, the build process can sometimes conflict. This is because Visual Studio has its own non-standard build server that is different from the standard build server used by .NET SDK. Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code also use different file types to group projects. So I have duplicated and separated solution code for each product:

/vs4win: Visual Studio 2022 for Windows solution files and projects for each chapter
/vscode: Visual Studio Code workspace files and projects for each chapter

Bonus content

Three chapters and the appendix available to download as a PDF file: 9781801077361_Bonus_Content.pdf.

Chapter 18, Building and Consuming Specialized Services
Chapter 19, Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI (also available as an updated online document)
Chapter 20, Protecting Your Data and Applications
Appendix A, Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions (click the PDF file above, download, and the Appendix starts on page 137.)

Supplementary print book materials available to download:

Color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book

Important

Corrections for typos and other mistakes and improvements like refactoring code. Useful links to other related material.

Book Links
Improvements & Errata - list of corrections
Sixth edition's support for .NET 7
Online step-by-step instructions for common code editors
Feedback survey (coming soon): For now, feel free to email me at Gmail using my GitHub username.

Join me on Discord

Join me on Discord using this invite: https://packt.link/csharp10dotnet6

Discord channel for the C# 10 and .NET 6 book

Microsoft Certifications

Announcing the New Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-foundational-csharp-certification/

Microsoft used to have professional exams and certifications for developers that covered skills like C# and ASP.NET. Sadly, they have retired them all. These days, the only developer-adjacent exams and certifications are for Azure or Power Platform, as you can see from the certification poster: https://aka.ms/traincertposter

Microsoft .NET community support

.NET Developer Community: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community
.NET Tech Community Forums for topic discussions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/net/ct-p/dotnet
Q&A for .NET to get your questions answered: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products/dotnet
Technical questions about the C# programming language: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics/dotnet-csharp.html
If you'd like to apply to be a reviewer: https://authors.packtpub.com/reviewers/

Interviews with me

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C# 10 and .NET 6 by Packt Publishing