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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

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library


In this recipe, we will be creating a classic Windows application to use the library. We will be creating a UI using the Visual Studio designer, adding code to use the library, and displaying the list of IP addresses picked from the library itself.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 and have completed the previous recipe. We will be using the solution we built in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Now open the solution from the previous recipe. Click File | Open | Open Project/Solution or press Ctrl + Shift + O and select the Chapter7.Networkings solution. 
  3. Press Ctrl + Shift + B for a quick build to check everything is fine. 
  4. Now, click on the Chapter7.Networking solution label. Click File | Add | New Project.
  5. In the Add New Project template dialog box, expand the Visual C# node in the left pane. 
  6. Select Windows Classic Desktop and select Windows FormsApp (.NET Framework) in...