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Xamarin Blueprints

By : Michael Williams
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Xamarin Blueprints

By: Michael Williams

Overview of this book

Do you want to create powerful, efficient, and independent apps from scratch that will leverage the Xamarin framework and code with C#? Well, look no further; you’ve come to the right place! This is a learn-as-you-build practical guide to building eight full-fledged applications using Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin Android, and Xamarin iOS. Each chapter includes a project, takes you through the process of building applications (such as a gallery Application, a text-to-speech service app, a GPS locator app, and a stock market app), and will show you how to deploy the application’s source code to a Google Cloud Source Repository. Other practical projects include a chat and a media-editing app, as well as other examples fit to adorn any developer’s utility belt. In the course of building applications, this book will teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications implementing performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Xamarin Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Creating an ASP.Net Web API 2 project


We are going to start with creating a new project in Microsoft Visual Studio. Go to File | New Project and select a new Visual C# ASP.Net project:

We want to then select the Empty template and click the Web API checkbox.

We can actually test the project right away and click Run, it will automatically deploy the site and run the application in your default browser. We now have our base ASP.NET application template, let's look more closely at the project structure. In the Solution Explorer, starting with the Models folder, this is where we create all our data objects that represent the data in the application, which are the objects that will be serialized to JSON and sent over HTTP requests. Then, in the Controllers folder, this is where we have our API controllers, which are objects that handle HTTP requests. These are the main two areas we are going to be focusing on.

Let's start with creating a data model for a single stock item. Add a new file to the...