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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail
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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


When you look at C# as a language, there are things we need to look at first: what C# can do, how it supports our day-to-day programming requirements, and how it helps us to solve a problem. In this chapter, we will be mainly looking at primitive data types, collections, and LINQ features supported in C#. In the full .NET Framework, using these features is not a problem, but when it comes to cross-platform and code shared across flavors of the .NET Framework, it does becomes a concern. 

Each recipe will go through building a .NET Standard 2.0 library and how to use it with an application that uses a flavor of the .NET Framework.