Azure Adventures with C#: First Steps for C# Developers into Azure Cloud

Harness the power of Azure to create cutting-edge applications, services, and infrastructure. This book is a comprehensive guide designed to help experienced C# developers master the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure. Whether you’re new to Azure or looking to deepen your cloud expertise, this book provides a solid foundation in Azure basics, and resource organization, and covers some of the most commonly used Azure resources. It also includes C# solutions and bicep scripts to deploy infrastructure on Azure.

The book starts with Azure fundamentals covering its structure, resource management, and pricing followed by its resource organization. You will then go through the latest version of Azure Functions and its implementation. Storage account features such as containers and queues are discussed next along with securing your applications with Managed Identity. You will learn how to manage, save, and maintain data in Azure using SQL Server and understand the advanced systems for message delivery. And you will learn about the Virtual Network and how Azure resources can be isolated from other services and from the Internet, if needed.

After reading the book, you will be able to build, deploy, and manage Azure as a scalable and robust cloud solution.

What You Will Learn

• Create a REST API using Azure Functions
• Use messaging services such as Account Storage Queues, Event Grid, or Service Bus
• Use trigger in Azure Function for various services in Azure
• Secure solutions using Managed Identity and Virtual Networks
• Store data in Account Storage and databases

Michał Świtalik is a Software Engineer with over eight years of experience. Since the beginning of his journey, he always loved to share his knowledge with others. He shares his knowledge through lectures inside his company, for students, or through blog posts, and by being a mentor for trainees. Michał has diverse knowledge across Azure, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 environments. He always loves to develop himself and doesn’t avoid hard and complex solutions for his clients.

Currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Volvo, Michał’s main responsibilities are to provide secure and stable solutions for his company. He watches other team members to have the same standards in their projects. Additionally, he brings new technologies or ideas and improves ways of working to stay up to date.

Michał’s Microsoft Certificates: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate