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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

Overview of this book

If you want to build powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core, then this book is for you. First, we’ll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7 such as tuples, pattern matching, out variables, and so on. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we’ll dive into the .NET Standard 1.6 class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, serialization and encryption. The final section will demonstrate the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we’ll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, mobile apps, and web services. Lastly, we’ll look at how you can package and deploy your applications so that they 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 (24 chapters)
C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Practicing and exploring


Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore with deeper research into the topics covered in this chapter.

Exercise 1.1 - test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. Why can a programmer use different languages, for example C# and F#, to write applications that run on .NET Core?

  2. What do you type at the prompt to build and execute C# source code?

  3. What is the Visual C# developer settings keyboard shortcut to save, compile, and run an application without attaching the debugger?

  4. What is the Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcut to view the Integrated Terminal?

  5. Is Visual Studio 2017 better than Visual Studio Code?

  6. Is .NET Core better than .NET Framework?

  7. How is .NET Native different from .NET Core?

  8. What is .NET Standard and why is it important?

  9. What is the difference between Git and GitHub?

  10. What is the name of the entry-point method of a .NET console application and how should it be declared?

Exercise 1.2 - practice coding anywhere

You do not need Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code to practice writing C#.

Go to one of the following websites and start coding:

Exercise 1.3 - explore topics

Use the following links to read more details about the topics covered in this chapter: