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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Practicing and exploring


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

Exercise 13.1 - test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. Which control would you choose to allow the user to easily choose their date of birth on many different types of devices?

  2. Which XAML element would you use to adapt the layout of your app to handle different device families?

  3. How can you set multiple properties on an XAML element as a single group?

  4. What is the difference between a control template and a data template?

  5. Can XAML bindings be two-ways or just one-way?

Exercise 13.2 - practice building a universal tip calculator

Create an app for UWP that calculates a tip for common percentages.

Exercise 13.3 - explore topics

Use the following links to read more about this chapter's topics.