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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Overview of this book

With the release of .NET Core 1.0, you can now create applications for Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows, using the development tools you know and love. C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 has been divided into three high-impact sections to help start putting these new features to work. First, we'll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-orient programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 6 such as string interpolation for easier variable value output, exception filtering, and how to perform static class imports. We'll also cover both the full-feature, mature .NET Framework and the new, cross-platform .NET Core. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we'll dive into the internals of the .NET class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, internationalization, serialization, and encryption. We'll look at Entity Framework Core 1.0 and how to develop Code-First entity data models, as well as how to use LINQ to query and manipulate that data. The final section will demonstrate the major types of applications that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we'll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, and web services. Lastly, we'll help you build a complete application that can be hosted on all of today's most popular platforms, including Linux and Docker. By the end of the book, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET Core.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hosting ASP.NET Core web apps in Microsoft Azure


First, you need to register an account with Microsoft Azure.

Register an Azure account

Go to http://portal.azure.com/ and register an account to get a free trial. You will be able to continue after the end of the free trial because we will only use the free features of Azure.

You can use any Microsoft account, for example, Hotmail, MSN, or Live account. For this book, I registered a new account named [email protected].

Create an Azure web app

Go to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/), where you will see the Azure dashboard:

Click on All resources and then click on the + Add button:

In the Search Everything box, enter web app and press Enter. Click on Web App and then click on Create:

In the Web App blade, enter a globally unique name for your web app:

Note

I entered quizwebapp, so this name is now taken. No one else will be able to have a Web App with that name. You will need to choose something different.

Leave the other options as...