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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

Are you a .NET developer who wishes to develop mobile solutions without delving into the complexities of a mobile development platform? If so, this book is a perfect solution to help you build professional mobile apps without leaving the .NET ecosystem. Mobile Development with .NET will show you how to design, architect, and develop robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure. With the help of real-world scenarios, you'll explore different phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin and .NET Standard. You'll even be able to implement a web-based backend composed of microservices with .NET Core using various Azure services including, but not limited to, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions. As you advance, you'll create data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB and data models such as the relational model and NoSQL. By the end of this mobile application development book, you'll be able to create cross-platform mobile applications that can be deployed as cloud-based PaaS and SaaS.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding .NET
5
Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
9
Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
14
Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
18
Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management

Deploying .NET Core applications

Once the ARM template is deployed and the Azure resources are created, our next step is to deploy .NET Core applications (that is, microservice applications as well as our functions app).

Azure DevOps provides all the necessary tasks to build and create the deployment package for an app service/web app. The trifecta of creating a .NET Core web deployment package is composed of restore, build, and publish. All these dotnet CLI commands can be executed using the built-in tasks within the build-and-release pipeline. So, let's begin:

  1. We will start by restoring the NuGet packages for our user's API microservice:

    Figure 17.11 – DotNet Restore Task

  2. The next step is to build the application using a specific build configuration (a pipeline variable can be used for this):

    Figure 17.12 – DotNet Build Task

  3. After the project is built, prepare the web deployment package to be able to push it to...