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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

Introduction


As a developer, at some point, we will have to write some data to the disk or read data from the disk. This may be a simple text file, or may be a log file in a system you have written. .NET Framework offers great support for working with files. Mainly, we will be looking at the System.IO namespace and its usage of it.

In this chapter, we will be looking at some cross-platform applications as well. Each recipe will go through setting up new environments, such as Ubuntu and macOS, as well as building a .NET Standard 2.0 library and an accompanying application that uses the library.