.NET Core Tutorial: A Complete Guide
Your beginner-friendly journey into .NET Core — the cross-platform framework for building modern applications. Each chapter includes explanations, code examples, diagrams, and a hands-on exercise.
Table of Contents
- 1. Getting Started Overview, Prerequisites, Environment Setup, First Steps
- 2. Development Environment SDK, CLI, Visual Studio, VS Code, Project Templates
- 3. Numerics & Core APIs Numerics, Strings, DateTime, Collections, LINQ
- 4. Memory Management Garbage Collection, Stack vs Heap, IDisposable, Weak References
- 5. Code Execution CLR, JIT, AOT, IL, Entry Points, Assembly Loading
- 6. Modularity Projects, Solutions, NuGet Packages, Dependency Injection
- 7. Project & Build System csproj, MSBuild, Metapackages, SDK, Restoring & Building
- 8. Libraries & Extensions Class Libraries, .NET Standard, NuGet Creation, UWP, Xamarin
- 9. Testing Unit Tests, xUnit, NUnit, MSTest, Mocking, TDD
- 10. SDK & CLI dotnet new, build, test, run, publish, NuGet Commands
- 11. Build & Deployment MSBuild Deep Dive, CI/CD, Docker, Azure Deployment
- 12. Migrations Upgrading from .NET Framework, project.json to csproj, Breaking Changes
- 13. Advanced Topics Performance, Extensibility, Interop, Diagnostics, Reflection
- 14. Practice & Resources Quick Guide, Study Plan, Interview Prep, Q&A, Projects
- 15. References Core Reference, Compiler Reference, API Reference