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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

Chapter 12 – Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ


  1. What are the two required parts of LINQ?

Answer: A LINQ provider and the LINQ extension methods. You must import the System.Linq namespace to make the LINQ extension methods available and reference a LINQ provider assembly for the type of data that you want to work with.

  1. Which LINQ extension method would you use to return a subset of properties from a type?

Answer: The Select method allows projection (selection) of properties.

  1. Which LINQ extension method would you use to filter a sequence?

Answer: The Where method allows filtering by supplying a delegate (or lambda expression) that returns a Boolean to indicate whether the value should be included in the results.

  1. List five LINQ extension methods that perform aggregation.

Answer: Any five of the following: Max, Min, Count, LongCount, Average, Sum, and Aggregate.

  1. What is the difference between the Select and SelectMany extension methods?

Answer:Select returns exactly what you specify to return...