.NET and ASP.NET Core

The platform C# runs on: the runtime and its memory, threads and concurrency, ASP.NET Core, and data access with EF Core. The language itself is under C#.

The platform

NETPLATFORM

.NET platform basics

Explain what .NET is made of, and how a project becomes running code.

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5 notes
  1. The CLI, the CLR and compilation
  2. The BCL and CoreLib
  3. Streams
  4. The .NET SDK and the dotnet CLI
  5. Project structure and assemblies
NETMEMORY

.NET memory management

Explain how .NET frees memory, and release resources the right way.

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Builds on: .NET platform basics

4 notes
  1. Garbage collection and generations
  2. IDisposable and the Dispose pattern
  3. Finalizers
  4. Efficient memory usage in .NET

Threads and concurrency

NETTHREADS

.NET threads and the thread pool

Explain how cores, threads and the thread pool serve a .NET app, and how a single request moves across them.

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5 notes
  1. Processes, threads and context switches
  2. The thread pool
  3. How many threads handle one request?
  4. The UI thread and SynchronizationContext
  5. Node's event loop compared with the .NET thread pool
NETCONC

Concurrency in .NET

Choose between concurrency and parallelism in .NET, and avoid the common failures.

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Builds on: Async in C#, .NET threads and the thread pool

11 notes
  1. Concurrency versus parallelism
  2. The tools .NET gives you for concurrency and parallelism
  3. How many jobs can Parallel.For run?
  4. Fan-out and fan-in with Parallel.For
  5. Load everything then render, or stream through a channel
  6. Heavy work inside an HTTP request
  7. Synchronization primitives and concurrent collections
  8. Where concurrent code goes wrong
  9. Race conditions
  10. Deadlocks
  11. Livelock and starvation

Web and data

ASPNET

ASP.NET Core fundamentals

Explain how an ASP.NET Core application starts, handles a request, and gets its services and settings.

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Builds on: .NET platform basics

7 notes
  1. Kestrel
  2. The middleware pipeline
  3. Dependency injection and service lifetimes
  4. DI scopes, threads and processes
  5. Configuration and the options pattern
  6. Routing
  7. The host and WebApplicationBuilder
ASPNETAPI

Web APIs in ASP.NET Core

Design, version and document a web API in ASP.NET Core.

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Builds on: ASP.NET Core fundamentals

4 notes
  1. API controllers and MVC controllers
  2. RESTful API design
  3. API versioning
  4. OpenAPI and Swagger
EFCORE

Data access with EF Core

Query and change data with EF Core, and keep it fast.

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Builds on: LINQ in C#

8 notes
  1. ORMs, DbContext and entities
  2. Querying with LINQ to Entities
  3. Loading related data
  4. Migrations
  5. Change tracking and SaveChanges
  6. EF Core query habits
  7. Pooling, compiled queries and compiled models
  8. EF Core performance techniques at a glance

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