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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

Overview of this book

With the release of .NET Core 1.0, you can now create applications for Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows, using the development tools you know and love. C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 has been divided into three high-impact sections to help start putting these new features to work. First, we'll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-orient programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 6 such as string interpolation for easier variable value output, exception filtering, and how to perform static class imports. We'll also cover both the full-feature, mature .NET Framework and the new, cross-platform .NET Core. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we'll dive into the internals of the .NET class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, internationalization, serialization, and encryption. We'll look at Entity Framework Core 1.0 and how to develop Code-First entity data models, as well as how to use LINQ to query and manipulate that data. The final section will demonstrate the major types of applications that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we'll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, and web services. Lastly, we'll help you build a complete application that can be hosted on all of today's most popular platforms, including Linux and Docker. By the end of the book, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET Core.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Animating with storyboards


You can make your application feel more natural and organic (and fun) using storyboard animations.

Add a new Blank App (Universal Windows) project named Ch13_BouncingBall.

Open the MainPage.xaml file, change Grid into Canvas and add an ellipse to make a red ball. Save your changes:

<Canvas Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
    <Ellipse Fill="Red" Height="100" Width="100"/>
</Canvas>

In the Solution Explorer window, right-click on the Ch13_BouncingBall project and choose Design in Blend….

The project will open in the Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio tool that is used by designers, because it has better support for graphical effects and animation than Visual Studio does.

On the drawing surface, click on the ellipse to select it.

In the Objects and Timeline window, click on the small green + button to create a new storyboard resource:

Change the name of the storyboard resource to BounceBall and click on OK:

A red box appears...