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.NET Base Class Libraries (BCL)

  • Number of Courses11 courses
  • Duration38 hours
  • Skill IQ available Skill IQ

Thanks to the .NET Base Class Library, .NET developers are productive and can build their applications based on a huge set of helper classes and APIs that give us a head-start. This way, we avoid reinventing the wheel.

This path contains courses covering several core functionalities available in the .NET BCL. You can choose to follow these individually if you’re interested in learning more about a specific topic.

You will learn how to work with JSON and XML in .NET applications. Both are commonly used as data exchange format when communicating with web services and APIs. You can also learn more on how to communicate with these endpoints based on the HttpClientFactory. Next, you can also learn how to work efficiently with dates and times in .NET as well as how to create regular expressions. Finally, more advanced concepts include cryptography as well as performance measuring your .NET applications.

The concepts taught in the courses of this path are universally applicable in .NET applications. You can therefore take your newly gained knowledge and use it for example in ASP.NET Core applications, WPF desktop applications or Maui mobile applications.

Courses in this path

Entry-Level

This section covers entry-level content.

.NET BCL: Big Picture

  • by Barry Luijbregts
  • 25m 28s Duration
  • 4.7  (110)

.NET BCL Fundamentals

  • by Xavier Morera
  • 6h 6m 12s Duration
  • 4.1  (23)

Practitioner

This section covers practitioner level content.

Working with JSON in .NET

  • by Xavier Morera
  • 2h 37m 11s Duration
  • 4.6  (45)

Working with XML in .NET

  • by Paul D. Sheriff
  • 2h 24m 34s Duration
  • 4.8  (13)

Accessing APIs Using HttpClient in .NET

  • by Kevin Dockx
  • 4h 1m 48s Duration
  • 4.9  (123)

Cryptography in .NET 6

  • by Stephen Haunts
  • 3h 9m 12s Duration
  • 4.9  (26)

Date and Time in .NET

  • by Filip Ekberg
  • 2h 7m 16s Duration
  • 4.7  (33)

.NET BCL Playbook

  • by Simon Robinson
  • 8h 59m 50s Duration
  • 4.9  (12)

Globalization and Internationalization in .NET

  • by Filip Ekberg
  • 2h 36m 19s Duration
  • 4.6  (18)

Advanced

This section covers advanced level content.

Building Distributed .NET Apps with Orleans

  • by Lindsey Broos
  • 3h 14m 22s Duration
  • 4.9  (28)

Performance Measuring and Monitoring for .NET Applications

  • by Ivan Gavryliuk
  • 2h 36m 1s Duration
  • 4.8  (38)

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Paul D. Sheriff
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Paul has over thirty years of experience architecting information systems and his expertise is in much demand from Fortune 500 companies. Paul is a Pluralsight author, has published 400+ articles, and authored over 14 books on topics ranging from JavaScript, Angular, C#, SQL Server and many .NET technologies. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups.
Kevin Dockx
Kevin Dockx
Kevin Dockx is a freelance solution architect, author & consultant, living in Antwerp (Belgium). He's been working in the IT sector for more than 20 years, and his main focus these days is backend (API) architecture & security for web and Azure cloud applications, using .NET. He regularly speak at (inter)national conferences, he's a Microsoft MVP and has been for more than 10 years, and he's a keen proponent of open-source software. In his free time, he enjoys a glass of wine, travelling an... more
Stephen Haunts
Stephen Haunts
Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET. Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... more
Filip Ekberg
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Lindsey Broos
Lindsey Broos
Lindsey Broos is a Microsoft MVP living in Belgium. She is a .NET consultant at Talent-IT. Her focus is everything .NET and web development. She is very active in the tech community as lead of Visug (the .NET User Group in Belgium) and as crew member of Techorama, the biggest Microsoft-oriented conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Ivan is a technical architect and independent cloud consultant based in London, UK with over 15 years of experience in designing and developing applications on a wide range of stacks, primarily but not limited to Microsoft. Although, his preferred specialization is backend architecture and cloud computing, Ivan has worked professionally with just about every major Microsoft technology. Today, he's excited about public clouds especially Microsoft Azure, and spreading the knowledge around scalable... more

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