Book Image

.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By : Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma
Book Image

.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By: Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma

Overview of this book

With the rise in the number of tools and technologies available today, developers and architects are always exploring ways to create better and smarter solutions. Before, the differences between target platforms was a major roadblock, but that's not the case now. .NET Core 2.0 By Example will take you on an exciting journey to building better software. This book provides fresh and relevant content to .NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that’s enjoyable to read. It also delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems, in a logical and simple way. With the .NET framework at its center, the book comprises of five varied projects: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application. You will start each chapter with a high-level overview of the content, followed by the above example applications described in detail. By the end of each chapter, you will not only be proficient with the concepts, but you’ll also have created a tangible component in the application. By the end of the book, you will have built five solid projects using all the tools and support provided by the .NET Core 2.0 framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Native Libraries in .NET Core

In this chapter, we are going to learn about ncurses native libraries and how to extend console capabilities in .NET Core on Linux. We will also learn how to Interop with existing native code. This chapter will introduce the ncurses native library and Interop with existing native and Mono libraries. We will build a sample native library in C++ and we will also learn how to create an application that implements the new library and ncurses. The purpose of this chapter is to get an understanding of Interop with existing libraries, and the ability to extend console capabilities through implementing ncurses.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to ncurses
  • Interop with existing native and Mono libraries
  • Building a sample native library (C++)
  • A sample application to implement the new library and ncurses