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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

Simplifying methods with operators


We might want two instances of a person to be able to procreate. We can implement this by writing methods. Instance methods are actions an object does to itself; static methods are actions the type does. Which you choose depends on what makes sense for the action.

Note

Good Practice Having both the static and instance methods to perform similar actions often makes sense. For example, string has both a Compare static method and a CompareTo instance method. This makes the functionality more visible to programmers using the type.

Implementing some functionality with a method

Add two methods to the Person class that will allow two Person objects to procreate, as shown in the following code:

// methods to "multiply" 
public static Person Procreate(Person p1, Person p2)
{ 
   var baby = new Person  
   {  
      Name = $"Baby of {p1.Name} and {p2.Name}"  
   }; 
   p1.Children.Add(baby); 
   p2.Children.Add(baby); 
   return baby; 
}

public Person ProcreateWith(Person...