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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

Practicing and exploring


Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter's topics with deeper research.

Exercise 8.1 – test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. Which .NET data provider would you use to work with Microsoft Access .MDB database files?

  2. Which .NET data provider would you use to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express Edition?

  3. What must you do with DbConnection variable before executing a DbCommand variable?

  4. When would you use CommandBehavior.SequentialAccess?

  5. When would you use classic ADO.NET instead of Entity Framework?

  6. When defining a DbContext class, what type would you use for the property that represents a table, for example, the Products property of a Northwind context?

  7. What are the EF conventions for primary keys?

  8. When would you use an annotation attribute in an entity class?

  9. Why might you choose the Fluent API in preference to annotation attributes?

  10. What is the difference between Database...