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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

Compressing? Why not?


In this recipe, we will be looking at file compression capabilities supported on .NET Framework and how to use them in a .NET Standard 2.0 library. File compression classes are supported inside the System.IO.Compression namespace. Classes inside this namespace are used to compress the file as well as decompress it. They are also used to read content inside a compressed file. Let's have a look and create a .NET Standard 2.0 library that compresses and decompresses a file.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 up and running. As mentioned previously, we will be using classes inside System.IO.Compression. Mainly, we will be looking at the ZipFile class. Let's get going and build our library that compresses and decompresses a file.

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Click File | New | Project to create a project. 
  3. In the New Project dialog box, expand the Other Project Types node in the left-hand pane, and select Visual Studio Solutions...