Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition

5 Essential C# features

This chapter covers

• Using C# language features for ASP.NET Core development
• Dealing with null values and the null state analysis feature
• Creating objects concisely
• Adding features to classes without directly modifying them
• Expressing functions concisely
• Modifying interfaces without breaking implementation classes
• Defining asynchronous methods

In this chapter, I describe C# features used in web application development that are not widely understood or that often cause confusion. This is not a book about C#, however, so I provide only a brief example for each feature so that you can follow the examples in the rest of the book and take advantage of these features in your projects. Table 5.1 provides a guide to this chapter. ...