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C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

By : Mark J. Price
Book Image

C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Third Edition, is a practical guide to creating powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0. It gives readers of any experience level a solid foundation in C# and .NET. The first part of the book runs you through the basics of C#, as well as debugging functions and object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7.1 such as default literals, tuples, inferred tuple names, pattern matching, out variables, and more. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, this book dives into the .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries, covering topics such as packaging and deploying your own libraries, and using common libraries for working with collections, performance, monitoring, serialization, files, databases, and encryption. The final section of the book demonstrates the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, you'll learn about websites, web applications, web services, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, and mobile apps. 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.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
2
Part 1 – C# 7.1
8
Part 2 – .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
16
Part 3 – App Models
22
Summary
Index

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 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 C# anywhere

You do not need Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Mac, 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: