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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

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library


This recipe will focus on building a classic Windows application to use the .NET Standard 2.0 library that we created in the previous recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you have completed the previous recipe where we built a .NET Standard 2.0 library. It used the System.IO namespace to encrypt and decrypt a file. Open that solution and do a quick Ctrl + Shift + B to check that everything is fine.

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Now open the solution we built from the previous recipe.
  3. The Solution Explorer should look like this:
  1. Now, let's select the solution name and right-click.
  2. From the menu, select Add | New Project.
  3. In the New Project dialog box, expand the Visual C# node and select Windows Classic Desktop in the left-hand pane.
  1. In the right-hand pane, select Windows Forms App (.NET Framework):
  1. Now, in the Name: textbox, type Chapter3.SecureFile.SecureWinApp, leave the Location: textbox as it is, and click OK.
  1. Now, the Solution Explorer...