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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
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Preface

ASP.NET Core MVC 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

Expand the Views folder, and then expand the Home folder. Note the three files with the .cshtml file extension.

Note

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

When the View() method is called in a controller's action method, ASP.NET Core 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, note the block of C# 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...