Building Mission-Critical Applications with .NET 10 and C# 14 - A Guide to Engineering Modern Cloud-Native .NET Applications with Less Pain

Learn best practices for building modern cloud-native applications using the latest advancements in the .NET ecosystem and C# language. This book will help you build business applications that are maintainable, performant, and accessible.
You will begin with a review of the .NET ecosystem, including IDEs and Visual Studio. You will next go through the latest features of C# 14, and you will learn how to expand language analysis using the Roslyn platform. You are then ready to explore building web applications using ASP.NET Core and Web API, and you will see how to use supportive tools and platforms such as OpenAPI (formerly Swagger). You will also explore how to connect front-end applications using MAUI, Blazor, etc. Managing data with Entity Framework Core is discussed next, and you will review DbContext and new features. You will understand how client applications can be built for Windows and the Windows ecosystem. You will then move on to learning how .NET code can be used to build native UI interfaces for various platforms, followed by exploring machine learning concepts and implementation through .NET 10. You will explore how to publish your code for internal use in your organization or across different communities. And you will learn how to build a DevOps pipeline and write scripts to automate their delivery using DevOps tools such as GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. What Will You Learn:

• Know how .NET integrates with Visual Studio, Azure, Office, mobile applications, and a suite of DevOps products
• Write better applications using industry-standard best skills and patterns
• Understand NET 10 and C# 14 offerings in terms of speed, performance, patterns, and developer experience
• Know how to use .NET 10 to build cross-platform experiences on top of the MAUI (formerly Xamarin), WPF, Windows Forms, and ASP.NET Core frameworks

Who This Book Is For: Software professionals using .NET

List of contents

Part 1: Thinking Software.- Chapter 1: .NET Ecosystem.- Chapter 2: Languages Spoken.- Chapter 3: Development Environments.- Part 2: Software Architecture.- Chapter 4: Software Kinds.- Chapter 5: .NET Platforms.- Chapter 6: UI-driven Apps.- Chapter 7: Working with Data.- Chapter 8: Handling Events.- Chapter 9: Real-time Apps.- Chapter 10: Adding Security.- Chapter 11: Defining Contracts and APIs.- Part 3: Software Quality.- Chapter 12: Building for Testability.- Chapter 13: The Wild West.- Chapter 14: Third-party Testing Suites.- Chapter 15: Question Yourself!.- Part 4: Bundling Source Code Together.- Chapter 16: The MSBuild.- Chapter 17: Build Patterns.- Chapter 18: The Basic Build.- Chapter 19: Managing Dependencies.- Chapter 20: Artifacts Caching.- Chapter 21: Supply Chain Security.- Part 5: Going Live.- Chapter 22: DevOps and Infrastructure.- Chapter 23: Infrastructure as Code.- Chapter 24: Development Machine to Production.- Chapter 25: Environments and Promotions.- Chapter 26: Distribution Platforms.- Part 6: Observing Apps.- Chapter 27: Understanding Your Apps.- Chapter 28: Monitoring vs Observing.- Chapter 29: Traceability and Telemetry.- Chapter 30: Visualization.- Chapter 31: Adding Alerts.- Part 7: Firefighting.- Chapter 32: Firefighting Rules.- Chapter 33: What Defines an Incident?.- Chapter 34:  Identify the Root Cause.- Part 8: Repeat.- Chapter 35: Monolith vs Microservices.- Chapter 36: SQL vs NoSQL.- Chapter 37: WebViews?.- Chapter 38: Machine Learning:.- Chapter 39: Open Source and Community.

About the author

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
is a Developer Advocate currently living in The Netherlands, and likes to use .NET Core and Node.js for normal everyday development. He enjoys being involved in Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. AHe is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, and has twice been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times been awarded CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and four times ben awarded C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

Summary

Learn best practices for building modern cloud-native applications using the latest advancements in the .NET ecosystem and C# language. This book will help you build business applications that are maintainable, performant, and accessible.

You will begin with a review of the .NET ecosystem, including IDEs and Visual Studio. You will next go through the latest features of C# 14, and you will learn how to expand language analysis using the Roslyn platform. You are then ready to explore building web applications using ASP.NET Core and Web API, and you will see how to use supportive tools and platforms such as OpenAPI (formerly Swagger). You will also explore how to connect front-end applications using MAUI, Blazor, etc. Managing data with Entity Framework Core is discussed next, and you will review DbContext and new features. You will understand how client applications can be built for Windows and the Windows ecosystem.
 
You will then move on to learning how .NET code can be used to build native UI interfaces for various platforms, followed by exploring machine learning concepts and implementation through .NET 10. You will explore how to publish your code for internal use in your organization or across different communities. And you will learn how to build a DevOps pipeline and write scripts to automate their delivery using DevOps tools such as GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps.
 

What Will You Learn:

• Know how .NET integrates with Visual Studio, Azure, Office, mobile applications, and a suite of DevOps products
• Write better applications using industry-standard best skills and patterns
• Understand NET 10 and C# 14 offerings in terms of speed, performance, patterns, and developer experience
• Know how to use .NET 10 to build cross-platform experiences on top of the MAUI (formerly Xamarin), WPF, Windows Forms, and ASP.NET Core frameworks

Who This Book Is For:
 
Software professionals using .NET

Product details

• Authors: Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.06.2026
• EAN: 9798868823466
• ISBN: 9798868823466
• No. of pages: 225
• Illustrations: XXV, 225 p. 10 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Microsoft, Visual Studio, .NET, Cloud native, .NET Core, Microsoervices, C#11