6 Books Every .NET Software Developer must have

.NET Core has been growing up fast, and every day more people are taking advantage of it, while .NET Core has many similarities to .NET Framework, it has many new features and some ways to solve tasks have changed.

Below you will find a list of books which would help you polish your .NET Core Skills

Programming ASP.NET Core (Developer Reference) 1st Edition

This books is a complete guide to .NET Core and many of the features and components surrounding it.  You will learn: .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, ASP .NET Identity in .NET Core, Dependency Injection, using middleware, and more.

Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2: Building Cross-Platform Back-End SystemsProfessional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 7th Edition

While most of the times not visible to the main users of a system, back-ends are a vital part of most systems. Nowadays, it is very important to have the same applications accessible from many platforms (Web, Mobile, Windows, etc), while having the same back-end, this can be easily achieved by exposing your shared functionality as Web APIs.

.NET Core 2.0 By Example: Learn to program in C# and .NET Core by building a series of practical, cross-platform projects

One of the best ways to learn is through examples. You will find a step by step guide from the installation of the required tools up to the implementation of applications running in .NET Core.

C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications: The Open Source revolution of .NET Core

As time passes and technologies evolve, the way to develop applications also change. Nowadays, it is required to create high-quality modern applications, which are cross-platform and many times open sourced. With this book you will learn the basis for .NET Core based moden web applications and microservices.

Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core: An architectural journey into the Microsoft .NET open source platform

Design and Development of Enterprise Applications is more than just coding, it is a set of steps involving methodologies, best-practices and tools to manage the systems lifecycles from its inception up to the release to production and maintenance.

With this book you will learn about DevOps, Agile, basics for enterprise level architectures, distributed computing, microservices, cloud-specific architectures, and even some market trends.

C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance: Build highly performant, multi-threaded, and concurrent applications using C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0

Modern applications require to respond very quickly and efficiently, though also many times these systems have the need to perform long-running tasks, which, if not designed correctly, can create bottlenecks and heavily reduce the system performance. With this book, you will learn to design and implement highly performance systems by using such as multithreading and microservices.