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C# Programming Cookbook

By : Dirk Strauss
Book Image

C# Programming Cookbook

By: Dirk Strauss

Overview of this book

During your application development workflow, there is always a moment when you need to get out of a tight spot. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming problems and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start with C# 6, giving you hands-on experience with the new language features. Next, we work through the tasks that you perform on a daily basis such as working with strings, generics, and lots more. Gradually, we move on to more advanced topics such as the concept of object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, reactive extensions, and code contracts. You will learn responsive high performance programming in C# and how to create applications with Azure. Next, we will review the choices available when choosing a source control solution. At the end of the book, we will show you how to create secure and robust code, and will help you ramp up your skills when using the new version of C# 6 and Visual Studio
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C# Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an iOS application using Xamarin Forms


Many developers want to try their hand at writing an iOS application. The big drawback has always been learning a new programming language and a new IDE. For some, it is probably not an issue as they want to learn something new. But for many .NET developers, being able to stick to an IDE and programming language they know is immensely empowering. Well, this is exactly what Xamarin Forms and Visual Studio achieve. It gives .NET developers the ability to use Visual Studio to write applications that can be run cross-platform easily, without having a separate code base for each.

Getting ready

You will need to have a Mac running OS X. You will only need this for debugging iOS applications.

How to do it…

  1. In Visual Studio 2015, create a new project. From the installed templates, choose Cross-Platform and select Blank App (Xamarin.Forms.Portable). This will allow us to create an application that will be cross-platform and not specific to a single platform...