.NET

Go beyond writing code that works. Learn what really happens inside .NET, from C# and the JIT to memory, CPU execution and the operating system. This practical guide shows experienced developers how to measure performance, find real bottlenecks and make targeted improvements that hold up in production.

Whether you're new to programming or expanding your .NET skills, this book will help you master F# from the ground up. Through practical examples and real projects, you'll learn to write clean, reliable code, embrace functional programming and build modern applications with confidence.

A production-tested guide for senior .NET developers, tech leads, and architects who want real AI productivity gains - not another tutorial that breaks down the moment you leave the demo.

A practical .NET/C# guide to building Genetic Algorithms from scratch and applying them to real-world optimization problems with 27 complete projects, visual demos, and full source code.

Everywhere you look, programming languages are gaining functional features. The problem is that it's not the individual features that make functional programmers happy, it's the way that your approach to writing software and the features work together to help you write simple code to solve interesting problems. This concise, practical ebook will help you discover why F# is such a popular language with those who have spent time learning its secrets. 

Unlock the power of Modern C# with the ultimate beginner's guide. Go from your very first line of code to designing custom objects and classes. Master essential concepts: data management, control flow logic, and reusable methods. Lay the rock-solid foundation for advanced AI, Azure, and Unity game development.

Follow the evolution of .NET web development from its early foundations to today’s modern ecosystem in the 4th edition of this book.

A free, developer-friendly guide to prompt engineering in C# — no Python required. Learn how LLMs work, structure reliable prompts, and build real workflows (code review, test generation, docs) using Microsoft.Extensions.AI, LM Studio, OpenAI, or Azure AI Foundry. Seven chapters. Seven runnable .NET 10 projects. Zero hype. Just dotnet new console and working code.

Ninety-two C# features, from C# 5 to C# 14, organized by the problems they solve — with verbatim code from five runnable projects and seven production-ready patterns, all on .NET 10 LTS.

Elegant Design Principles distils decades of design wisdom into 95 actionable principles spanning core OO, SOLID/GRASP, package design, reliability and a forward‑looking AI‑first approach. Explore the Design Pyramid to understand how quality attributes, smells and principles interconnect; learn to manage complexity through high cohesion, low coupling and clear abstractions; and adopt modern practices like test‑driven development and semantic modularity. From novices seeking a roadmap to experts embracing AI‑assisted workflows, this book equips you to create systems that are robust, maintainable and elegant—today and in the AI‑driven future.

The software landscape is more crowed than ever! New frameworks seem to arrive weekly.  There are tons of books out there about mastering specific frameworks, but here is one to help you master the one constant factor, no matter where you are:  constructing the source code. Build great things in any programming notation; the rules are inside...

Learn about working efficiently with memory in .NET.

Kill N+1 queries, read EXPLAIN-friendly EF patterns, and ship faster ASP.NET APIs with a dense EF Core performance cookbook.

High-Performance Real-Time Systems in .NET Engineering ultra-low-latency, high-throughput real-time systems with .NET, WebSockets, SignalR, Kestrel, and distributed architectures. Modern real-time applications are expected to maintain persistent connections, process massive event streams, synchronize distributed state, and deliver predictable latency under extreme concurrency.