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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

Casting within inheritance hierarchies


Casting is subtly different from converting between types.

Implicit casting

In the previous example, you saw how an instance of a derived type can be stored in a variable of its base type (or its base's base type and so on). When we do this, it is called implicit casting.

Explicit casting

Going the other way is an explicit cast, and you must use parentheses to do it.

In the Main method, add the following code:

    Employee e2 = aliceInPerson; 

Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code display a red squiggle and a compile error in the Error List and Problems window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Change the code as follows:

    Employee e2 = (Employee)aliceInPerson; 

Handling casting exceptions

The compiler is now happy; but, because aliceInPerson might be a different derived type, like a Student instead of an Employee, we need to be careful. This statement might throw an InvalidCastException error.

We can handle this by writing a try statement...