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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 Blueprints

By : Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer
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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 Blueprints

By: Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer

Overview of this book

.NET Core is a general purpose, modular, cross-platform, and open source implementation of .NET. With the latest release of .NET Core, many more APIs are expected to show up, which will make APIs consistent across .Net Framework, .NET Core, and Xamarin. This step-by-step guide will teach you the essential .NET Core and C# concepts with the help of real-world projects. The book starts with a brief introduction to the latest features of C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 before moving on to explain how C# 7 can be implemented using the object-oriented paradigm. You'll learn to work with relational data using Entity Framework and see how to use ASP.NET Core practically. This book will show you how .NET Core allows the creations of cross-platform applications. You'll also learn about SignalR to add real-time functionality to your application. Then you will see how to use MongoDB and how to implement MongoDB into your applications. You'll learn about serverless computing and OAuth concepts, along with running ASP.NET Core applications with Docker Compose. This project-based guide uses practical applications to demonstrate these concepts. By the end of the book, you'll be proficient in developing applications using .NET Core 2.0.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


C# 7 is a fantastic version of the language. In this chapter, we had a look at out variables. You will remember that with C# 7 we now have the ability to declare the variable right at the point it is passed as an out argument. We then looked at tuples, which provide an elegant way to return multiple values from a method.

Moving, on we looked at expression-bodied properties, which is a more succinct way to write your code. Then, we discussed local functions (one of my favorite features) and its ability to create a helper function inside another function. This makes sense if the function that uses the local function is the only code that uses it.

Pattern matching was up next and are syntactic elements that look to see if a specific value has a certain shape. This makes switch statements (for example) nicer to use. Lastly, we looked at throw expressions. This makes it possible to add exception throwing to our expression-bodied members, conditional and null-coalescing expressions.

As you continue to use C# 7, you will discover more opportunities to use these new features. At first (for me anyway) I had to purposefully condition myself to write code using a new feature (out variables being a perfect example).

After a while, the convenience of doing that becomes second nature. You will soon start to automatically write code using the new features available to you.