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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

Creating a modern Windows app


We will start by creating a simple Windows app, with some common controls and modern features of Fluent Design like acrylic material.

To be able to create apps for UWP, you must enable developer mode in Windows 10.

Enabling developer mode

Go to Start | Settings | Update & Security | For developers, and then click on Developer mode, as shown in the following screenshot:

Accept the warning about how it "could expose your device and personal data to security risk or harm your device," and then close the Settings app. You might need to restart your PC.

Creating a UWP project

In Visual Studio 2017, open the Part3 solution, and choose File | Add | New Project....

In the Add New Project dialog, in the Installed list, select Visual C# | Windows Universal. In the center list, select Blank App (Universal Windows), type the name as FluentUwpApp, and then click on OK.

In the New Universal Windows Platform Project dialog, choose the latest version of Windows 10 for Target Version...