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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

Overview of this book

If you want to build powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core, then this book is for you. First, we’ll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7 such as tuples, pattern matching, out variables, and so on. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we’ll dive into the .NET Standard 1.6 class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, serialization and encryption. The final section will demonstrate the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we’ll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, mobile apps, and web services. Lastly, we’ll look at how you can package and deploy your applications so that they 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 (24 chapters)
C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

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...

Note

Be patient. The first time you start Blend, it can take a few minutes.

The project will open in the Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio tool, which 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 red ellipse to select it, as shown in the following screenshot.

In the Objects and Timeline window on the left, click...