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Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms

By : Paul Johnson
Book Image

Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms

By: Paul Johnson

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
In the Beginning…
Index

Chapter 5. Data, Generics, and Making Sense of Information

.NET provides the developer with a rich library of code which enables us to process and manipulate data with or without a database. We also have generic types and database style manipulators using LINQ. In short, .NET gives the developer all the tools required for complex and speedy data manipulation.

In this chapter, we shall be covering the following topics:

  • Using generics to speed up development

  • Using LINQ to make queries simpler to use and extract the correct information

  • Writing the database helper class

  • Using reflection within the SQL helper class and elsewhere