.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail

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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

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Overview of this book

The .NET Standard is a standard that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement, making it easy for developers to access and use one common library for their development needs. This book begins with a quick refresher, helping you understand the mechanics of the new standard and offering insight into how it works. You’ll explore the core library concepts, such as working with collections, configurations, I/O, security, and multithreading. You’ll explore the iOS and Android libraries of Xamarin and we’ll guide you through creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library, which you’ll use with both Android and iOS applications. In the final chapters, you’ll learn the various debugging and diagnostics tools to deliver quality libraries and create a NuGet package of the .NET Standard 2.0 library. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to expand your current workflow to various .NET flavors and have the essential skills to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch to package and deliver it to the world.

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Back to Basics

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a C#-based console application

Creating a C# class library

Creating a classic Windows-based application to use the library

Creating a WPF-based application to use the library

Hello Universe – My first .NET Standard class library

Creating a Windows console-based application to use the library

Creating an ASP.NET Core-based web application to use the library

Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More

Technical requirements

Introduction

Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses primitives

A .NET console application to use the library

Creating collections

A WPF application to use the library

Describing our library with Reflections

A .NET Core console application to use the library

Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses LINQ

An ASP.NET MVC application to use the library

Working with Files

Technical requirements

Introduction

Setting up .NET Core in Ubuntu

Creating a log as text

Creating an ASP.NET Core application in Ubuntu to use the library

Setting up .NET Core in macOS

Reading from a comma separated (CSV) text file

Creating a .NET Core console application in macOS to use the library

Compressing? Why not?

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Encrypting and decrypting content in a text file

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Functional Programming

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses tuples

Creating a Razor Pages web application to use the library

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses delegates and lambda expressions

Creating a .NET console application to use the library

XML and Data

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a library that reads and writes to an XML file

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the XMLLib library

Processing an XML file using LINQ to XML

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Exploring Threading

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a library that can perform several things at once

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Creating an async method with tasks

Creating a WPF application to use the library

Creating a thread pool

Creating a .NET console application to use the library

Networking

Technical requirements

Introduction

A library that displays an IP address and the name using sockets

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Creating a library that sends mail

Creating a WPF application to use the library

Creating a library to call a REST API

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the library

To iOS with Xamarin

Technical requirements

Introduction

Installing Visual Studio for Mac

Hello iOS – Creating a Xamarin iOS app

Creating the .NET Standard 2.0 library

Putting things together and testing the application

To Android with Xamarin

Technical requirements

Introduction

Hello Android – Creating a Xamarin Android app

Adding a .NET Standard 2.0 library to the Xamarin project

Putting things together and testing the application

Let’s Fine-Tune Our Library

Technical requirements

Introduction

A library logs things itself

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Informing the end user – Exception handling and error messages

Using Visual Studio 2017 diagnostics and debugging tools

Packaging and Delivery

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library

Creating a NuGet package of your library

Submitting the package to NuGet package manager

Creating a classic Windows application and testing the NuGet package

Deploying

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a free Azure Cloud subscription

Creating an ASP.NET core web application to use the library from NuGet

Deploying the application to Azure Cloud

Index

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Introduction

Microsoft .NET is a general-purpose development platform with support for multiple programming languages, which is a key feature. Other key features include asynchronous and concurrent programming models and native interoperability. The .NET Framework supports multiple programming languages, such as C#, VB.NET, and F#, which are actively developed and supported by Microsoft. In this book, we are going to look at C#.

C# is a modern, object-oriented, type-safe programming language that helps developers build robust, secure applications using the .NET Framework. C# was introduced with .NET Framework 1.0 in 2002. Since that time, C# has evolved and matured. At the time of writing, the current version of C# is 7.0 and .NET has various flavors to use with the following:

.NET Framework: The full flavor of .NET that is distributed with Windows. Used by developers to build ASP.NET 4.5/4.6 under Windows or desktop Windows applications.
.NET Core: Another flavor of .NET that runs under Windows, Mac, and Linux. Used by developers to build cross-platform .NET-based applications including cross-platform web applications, using ASP.NET Core.
Xamarin: A mono-based framework used for mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Windows phone devices. macOS desktop applications are supported with this flavor.
.NET Standard: A replacement for Portable Class Libraries (PCL) used by developers to share code among all platforms, but supported with APIs in the latest version, 2.0. Also, you should note that .NET Standard 2.0 is supported in .NET Core 2.0, .NET Framework 4.6.1, and later versions, as well as in Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.3).

.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail

.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

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