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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

Selection statements


Every application needs to be able to select from choices and branch along different code paths. The two selection statements in C# are if and switch. You can use if for all your code but switch can simplify your code in some common scenarios.

Using Visual Studio 2017

Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. In Visual Studio, press Ctrl + Shift + N or choose File | New | Project....

In the New Project dialog, in the Installed | Templates list, select Visual C#. In the list at the center, select Console App (.NET Core), type the name Ch03_SelectionStatements, change the location to C:\Code, type the solution name Chapter03, and then click on OK.

Using Visual Studio Code on macOS, Linux, or Windows

If you completed previous chapters, then you will already have a Code folder in your user folder. If not, create it, and then create a subfolder named Chapter03, and then a sub-subfolder named Ch03_SelectionStatements.

Start Visual Studio Code and open the /Chapter03/Ch03_SelectionStatements...