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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail
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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

Overview of this book

The .NET Standard is a standard that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement, making it easy for developers to access and use one common library for their development needs. This book begins with a quick refresher, helping you understand the mechanics of the new standard and offering insight into how it works. You’ll explore the core library concepts, such as working with collections, configurations, I/O, security, and multithreading. You’ll explore the iOS and Android libraries of Xamarin and we’ll guide you through creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library, which you’ll use with both Android and iOS applications. In the final chapters, you’ll learn the various debugging and diagnostics tools to deliver quality libraries and create a NuGet package of the .NET Standard 2.0 library. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to expand your current workflow to various .NET flavors and have the essential skills to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch to package and deliver it to the world.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses primitives


In this recipe, we will have a look at C# primitives and their usage in a .NET Standard 2.0 library. Primitives are one of the core parts of the framework. These types are defined in the .NET Framework itself and not in the C# language specification.

We will be building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses primitives in the .NET Framework and use it in the next recipe. 

Getting ready 

As mentioned, primitive data types are defined under .NET Framework itself and it's not language specific. It means you can use these data types across all languages supported under .NET Framework. It doesn't mean you can use these primitives under different flavors of .NET Framework. For example, if a data type is defined under .NET Framework version 4.6.1, and it's not defined under .NET Core 2.0, your code will fail under .NET Core 2.0. 

Also, make sure you have the latest version of Visual Studio, which is 2017 at the time of writing.

How to do it.....