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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
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Preface

Practice and explore


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

Exercise 3.1 - test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. Where would you look for help about a C# keyword?

  2. Where would you look for solutions to common programming problems?

  3. What happens when you divide an int variable by 0?

  4. What happens when you divide a double variable by 0?

  5. What happens when you overflow an int variable, that is, set it to a value beyond its range?

  6. What is the difference between x = y++; and x = ++y;?

  7. What is the difference between break, continue, and return when used inside a loop statement?

  8. What are the three parts of a for statement and which of them are required?

  9. What is the difference between the = and == operators?

  10. Does the following statement compile? for ( ; true; ) ;

Exercise 3.2 - explore loops and overflow

What will happen if this code executes?

    int max = 500; 
    for (byte i...