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C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

By : Mark J. Price
Book Image

C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Third Edition, is a practical guide to creating powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0. It gives readers of any experience level a solid foundation in C# and .NET. The first part of the book runs you through the basics of C#, as well as debugging functions and object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7.1 such as default literals, tuples, inferred tuple names, pattern matching, out variables, and more. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, this book dives into the .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries, covering topics such as packaging and deploying your own libraries, and using common libraries for working with collections, performance, monitoring, serialization, files, databases, and encryption. The final section of the book demonstrates the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, you'll learn about websites, web applications, web services, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, and mobile apps. By the end of the book, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
2
Part 1 – C# 7.1
8
Part 2 – .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
16
Part 3 – App Models
22
Summary
Index

Understanding the modern Windows platform


Microsoft continues to improve their Windows platform, which includes multiple technologies for building modern apps:

  • Universal Windows Platform 6.0
  • Fluent Design System
  • XAML Standard 1.0

Understanding Universal Windows Platform

UWP is Microsoft's latest technology solution to build applications for its Windows suite of operating systems.

UWP provides a guaranteed API layer across multiple device types. You can create a single app package that can be uploaded to a single store to be distributed to reach all the device types your app can run on. These devices include Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and Microsoft HoloLens.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, released on October 17, 2017, includes UWP 6.0, which is built on a custom-forked implementation of .NET Core 2.0.

XAML and UWP provide layout panels that adapt how they display their child controls to make the most of the device they are currently running on. It is the Windows app equivalent of...