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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

Creating a .NET Core console application in macOS to use the library


In this recipe, we will be creating a .NET Core console application to use the library built in the previous session. .NET Core is a cross-platform .NET flavor that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. This recipe focuses on .NET Core that runs under macOS.

Getting ready

Let's open the terminal and make sure we are in the root of the solution built in the previous recipe. Perform a quick build command as follows to check that everything is working fine:

$ dotnet build

How to do it...

  1. Open the terminal (Applications | Utilities | Terminal).
  2. Navigate to the root of the solution we built in the previous recipe and enter the following command:
$ dotnet new console -o Chapter3.CsvFile.ConsoleApp
  1.  Again, type this command to see the content of the directory:
$ ls
  1. Your terminal should look like this:
  1.  Execute the following commands to add this project to the solution and to test build:
$ dotnet sln add 
      Chapter3.CsvFile.Console/Chapter3...