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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

Debugging tools


In this section, you will learn how to debug problems at design time, trace problems at runtime, and use types such as Debug, Trace, Process, and Stopwatch that are in the System.Diagnostics namespace.

Debugging an application

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

In the New Project dialog, from the Installed | Templates list, select Visual C#. In the list at the center, select Console App (.NET Core), type the name Ch05_Debugging, change the location to C:\Code, type the solution name Chapter05, and then click on OK.

For Visual Studio Code, create a new folder named Chapter05, create a new subfolder named Ch05_Debugging, and open the folder in Visual Studio Code. In the Integrated Terminal pane, enter the dotnet new console command, and restore packages.

Modify the template code to look like this:

    using static System.Console; 
 
    namespace Ch05_Debugging 
    { 
      class Program 
      { 
        static double Add(double...