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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

A WPF application to use the library


In this recipe, we will be creating a Windows Presentation Foundation application to use the .NET Standard 2.0 library we created in the previous recipe. We will be continuing to build the application from the previous solution we created. Windows Presentation Foundation is a UI framework that works under .NET Framework and runs in a Windows OS. 

Getting ready

Open Visual Studio 2017 and prepare for the project. Make sure you have completed building the .NET Standard 2.0 library in the preview build. Open that project if it's not already open and click Build | Build Solution, or press Ctrl + Shift + B, and the solution should build successfully. Everything's ready for testing our class library. 

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Now open the solution from the previous recipe. Click File | Open | Open Project/Solution, or press Ctrl + Shift + O, and select the Chapter2.Collections solution. 
  3. Now, click on the Chapter2.Collections solution label. Click...