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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail
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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

Overview of this book

The .NET Standard is a standard that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement, making it easy for developers to access and use one common library for their development needs. This book begins with a quick refresher, helping you understand the mechanics of the new standard and offering insight into how it works. You’ll explore the core library concepts, such as working with collections, configurations, I/O, security, and multithreading. You’ll explore the iOS and Android libraries of Xamarin and we’ll guide you through creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library, which you’ll use with both Android and iOS applications. In the final chapters, you’ll learn the various debugging and diagnostics tools to deliver quality libraries and create a NuGet package of the .NET Standard 2.0 library. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to expand your current workflow to various .NET flavors and have the essential skills to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch to package and deliver it to the world.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Describing our library with Reflections


In this recipe, we will be building a class object that will have two public methods. After using a console application, we will be describing this class object using Reflections. A Reflection gives you the ability to read its own metadata of finding assemblies, type, and module information at runtime. 

Getting ready

Make sure we have Visual Studio 2017 and all the updates installed. We will be starting with a blank solution. A blank solution is a very good starting point for any scale of project. Let's build our .NET Standard 2.0 library. 

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Click File | New | Project and, in the New Project template dialog box, select Visual Studio Solutions under the Other Project Types node in the left-hand pane and then Blank Solution in the right-hand pane.
  3. In the Name: text box, type Chapter2.Reflections as the name of the solution. Select a preferred location under the Location: drop-down list or click Browse... button and select...