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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

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

ASP.NET Core views


The responsibility of a view is to transform a model into HTML or other formats. There are multiple view engines that can be used to do this. The default view engine for ASP.NET MVC 3 and later is called Razor, and it uses the @ symbol to indicate server-side code execution.

Rendering the Home controller's views

In the Solution Explorer window, expand the Views folder. Expand the Home folder. Note the three files with the .cshtml file extension.

Tip

The .cshtml file extension means this is a file that mixes C# and HTML.

When the View method is executed in a controller action, MVC looks in the Views folder for a subfolder with the same name as the current controller, that is, Home. It then looks for a file with the same name as the current action, that is, Index, About, or Contact.

In the Index.cshtml file, notice the block of code wrapped in @{ }. This will execute first and can be used to store data that needs to be passed into a shared layout file:

@{
    ViewData["Title...