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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

Understanding cross-platform development


Cross-platform development means being able to both write code and run the results on operating systems other than Windows.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an open source, cross-platform, extensible, code-focused editor with some basic IDE features based on Google's Chromium project. Microsoft and Google have worked closely together to ensure that Visual Studio Code is a decent choice for cross-platform development.

However, it has significant limitations compared to Visual Studio 2015. Luckily, you can use Visual Studio 2015 on Windows for your initial development and then open the same files in Visual Studio Code when you need to work with your code on other platforms.

.NET Core 1.0

.NET Core 1.0 is a forked open source and cross-platform implementation of .NET that is designed for modern development. It is a subset of the Windows-only .NET Framework, but it has the advantage of running cross-platform across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux operating...