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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

Running tasks asynchronously


First, we will write a simple console application that needs to execute three methods, and execute them synchronously (one after the other).

Running multiple actions synchronously

In Visual Studio 2017, press Ctrl + Shift + N or go to File | New | Project....

In the New Project dialog, in the Installed | Templates list, expand Visual C#, and select .NET Core. In the center list, select Console App (.NET Core), type the name as Ch12_Tasks, change the location to C:\Code, type the solution name as Chapter12, and then click on OK.

In Visual Studio Code, create a directory named Chapter12 with a subfolder named Ch12_Tasks, and open the Ch12_Tasks folder. In the Integrated Terminal, execute the command: dotnet new console.

In both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code, ensure that the following namespaces have been imported:

    using System; 
    using System.Threading; 
    using System.Threading.Tasks; 
    using System.Diagnostics; 
    using...