What’s new in this eighth edition? For this eighth edition, I updated the entire book for C# 12 and .NET 8 , improving the content from the seventh edition. This ensures that concept introductions and code examples are refined, relevant, and easier to follow .
This book explores the most useful C# 12 features , such as primary constructors for classes and structs, default lambda expression parameter values, and new exception guard clauses. Notably, C# 12 allows aliasing any type, including tuples, streamlining object type declarations.
.NET's latest version brings numerous performance enhancements that require no code changes. Improved native ahead-of-time (AOT ) support enhances startup speed and reduces memory usage. This AOT support now extends to more project types, including ASP.NET Core web APIs implemented using minimal APIs . The significant addition to ASP.NET Core 8 is Blazor Full Stack , unifying Blazor and replacing legacy WebAssembly and Server models, explored in a dedicated chapter.
