Apps and Services with .NET 10

Bestselling author Mark Price guides you through the latest and most common technologies a .NET developer should know: ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Minimal APIs, .NET MAUI, Avalonia, gRPC, GraphQL, SQL Server, SignalR, and more!?

Key Features

Use specialized libraries to improve all aspects of your apps, including security and localization
Unlock scalability, performance, and resilience in your services
Unleash the capabilities of Avalonia, Blazor, and MAUI to develop stunning, truly cross-platform apps for desktop, web, and mobile

Book DescriptionBuilding modern apps and services with C# and .NET isn't just about knowing the syntax-it's about knowing the right tools for the job. Whether you're building for web, desktop, or mobile, the .NET ecosystem offers a vast range of technologies. But with so many choices, it's easy to get stuck in a narrow skillset. Apps and Services with .NET 10 is designed to help you build real-world experience across the breadth of what .NET 10 has to offer.

This edition covers practical implementations across a diverse set of technologies: build APIs with Minimal API, gRPC, GraphQL, and SignalR; create user-facing applications using Blazor for the web, Avalonia for desktop, and .NET MAUI for mobile. You'll explore native AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation for high-performance web services and master caching, messaging, and long-running background tasks. Each chapter is project-focused, giving you hands-on practice and real context for when and why to use each tool.

By the end, you'll have a full-stack command of modern .NET. You'll know how to select the right UI tech for your target platform, build APIs that scale, architect reliable backend services, and confidently adopt newer patterns. You won't just understand the tools-you'll know how to put them together to deliver robust, user-friendly, cross-platform apps in production environments.
What you will learn

Familiarize yourself with a variety of technologies to implement services, such as gRPC and GraphQL
Store and manage data locally and cloud-natively with SQL Server
Implement web services with native AOT publish support
Leverage Dapper for improved performance over EF Core
Implement popular third-party libraries such as Serilog, Humanizer, and Noda Time
Build web apps using Blazor, mobile apps using MAUI, and desktop apps using Avalonia

Who this book is forThis book is for .NET developers interested in exploring more specialized libraries and implementation fundamentals behind building services and apps.

You'll need to know your way around .NET and C# quite well before you can dive in, so if you want to work your way up to this book, you can pick up Mark's other .NET book, C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, first.