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C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook - Second Edition

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C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

C# has recently been open-sourced and C# 7 comes with a host of new features for building powerful, cross-platform applications. This book will be your solution to some common programming problems that you come across with C# and will also help you get started with .NET Core 1.1. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming challenges and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start by running you through new features in C# 7, such as tuples, pattern matching, and so on, giving you hands-on experience with them. Moving forward, you will work with generics and the OOP features in C#. You will then move on to more advanced topics, such as reactive extensions, Regex, code analyzers, and asynchronous programming. This book will also cover new, cross-platform .NET Core 1.1 features and teach you how to utilize .NET Core on macOS. Then, we will explore microservices as well as serverless computing and how these benefit modern developers. Finally, you will learn what you can do with Visual Studio 2017 to put mobile application development across multiple platforms within the reach of any developer.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating C# Lambda functions with AWS

On the 1st of December 2016, Amazon announced that C# was now a supported language for AWS Lambda. This is therefore really fresh off the press, so to speak, and developers can experiment with using AWS Lambda in their .NET applications. AWS Lambda allows you to deploy your code to AWS and not have to worry about the machines the code runs on or even worry about the scaling of those machines when demand increases. Your code will just work. This is really great for mobile developers. Up until December, AWS Lambda only supported Node.js, Pythos, and Java. Let's take a look at how to create a Lambda function in Visual Studio 2017 using C#.

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