Nagel - Professional C♯ 6 and .NET Core 1.0

Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

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This book is dedicated to my familyAngela,
Stephanie, and MatthiasI love you all!

CHRISTIAN NAGEL is Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies, and has been Microsoft Regional Director for more than 15 years. Christian is an associate of thinktecture and founder of CN innovation, where he offers training and consulting on how to develop solutions using the Microsoft platform. He draws on more than 25 years of software development experience.

Christian started his computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS systems at Digital Equipment Corporation, covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since 2000, when .NET was just a technology preview, he has been working with various technologies to build .NET solutions. Currently, he mainly coaches people on development of Universal Windows Platform apps and ASP.NET MVC, using several Microsoft Azure service offerings.

Even after many years in software development, Christian still loves learning and using new technologies and teaching others how to use the new technologies in various forms. Using his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies, he has written numerous books, and is certified as Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Solution Developer. Christian speaks at international conferences such as TechEd, BASTA!, and TechDays. He founded INETA Europe to support .NET user groups. You can contact Christian via his website www.cninnovation.com and follow his tweets at @christiannagel.

ISTVN NOVK is an associate and the chief technology consultant with SoftwArt, a small Hungarian IT consulting company. He works as a software architect and community evangelist. In the last 25 years, he has participated in more than 50 enterprise software development projects. In 2002, he coauthored the first Hungarian book about .NET development. In 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title, and in 2011 he became a Microsoft Regional Director. Istvn coauthored Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One (Wiley, 2010) and Beginning Windows 8 Application Development (Wiley, 2012), and he authored Beginning Visual Studio LightSwitch Development (Wiley, 2011). Istvn holds masters degree from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary and also has a doctoral degree in software technology. He lives in Dunakeszi, Hungary, with his wife and two daughters. He is a passionate scuba diver. You may have a good chance of meeting him underwater in the Red Sea, any season of the year.

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I WANT TO THANK Charlotte Kughen, who made my text so much more readable. Often I was working late at night writing while .NET Core was continuously evolving. Charlotte was of enormous help to change my ideas into great readable text. Im almost sure that Charlotte now knows a lot more about programming than she would like to. Special thanks also goes to Istvn Novk, who has authored several great books. Despite all the issues we had with the fast-evolving .NET Core and the interim builds I was using while working on the book, Istvn challenged me to enhance the code samples that allow youthe readerto better follow the flow. Thank you, Charlotte and Istvnyouve been of great help for the quality of this book.