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C# Programming Cookbook

By : Dirk Strauss
Book Image

C# Programming Cookbook

By: Dirk Strauss

Overview of this book

During your application development workflow, there is always a moment when you need to get out of a tight spot. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming problems and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start with C# 6, giving you hands-on experience with the new language features. Next, we work through the tasks that you perform on a daily basis such as working with strings, generics, and lots more. Gradually, we move on to more advanced topics such as the concept of object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, reactive extensions, and code contracts. You will learn responsive high performance programming in C# and how to create applications with Azure. Next, we will review the choices available when choosing a source control solution. At the end of the book, we will show you how to create secure and robust code, and will help you ramp up your skills when using the new version of C# 6 and Visual Studio
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C# Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Creating a Mobile Application in Visual Studio

Visual Studio is the tour de force of integrated development environments (IDEs). There is no doubt about that. You as a developer are able to be as versatile as you like by creating applications for a wide range of platforms. One of these platforms is mobile development. Developers are starting to create mobile applications, but don't want to use a different IDE. With Visual Studio 2015, you don't have to. It will allow you to create Android and (now with Xamarin) iOS applications too. This chapter will therefore take a look at the following concepts:

  • Installing Xamarin and other required components

  • Creating an Android Visual Studio project using Apache Cordova

  • Creating an iOS application using Xamarin Forms