.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By : Fiqri Ismail

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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

By: Fiqri Ismail

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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.

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Back to Basics

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a C#-based console application

Creating a C# class library

Creating a classic Windows-based application to use the library

Creating a WPF-based application to use the library

Hello Universe – My first .NET Standard class library

Creating a Windows console-based application to use the library

Creating an ASP.NET Core-based web application to use the library

Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More

Technical requirements

Introduction

Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses primitives

A .NET console application to use the library

Creating collections

A WPF application to use the library

Describing our library with Reflections

A .NET Core console application to use the library

Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses LINQ

An ASP.NET MVC application to use the library

Working with Files

Technical requirements

Introduction

Setting up .NET Core in Ubuntu

Creating a log as text

Creating an ASP.NET Core application in Ubuntu to use the library

Setting up .NET Core in macOS

Reading from a comma separated (CSV) text file

Creating a .NET Core console application in macOS to use the library

Compressing? Why not?

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Encrypting and decrypting content in a text file

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Functional Programming

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses tuples

Creating a Razor Pages web application to use the library

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses delegates and lambda expressions

Creating a .NET console application to use the library

XML and Data

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a library that reads and writes to an XML file

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the XMLLib library

Processing an XML file using LINQ to XML

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Exploring Threading

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a library that can perform several things at once

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Creating an async method with tasks

Creating a WPF application to use the library

Creating a thread pool

Creating a .NET console application to use the library

Networking

Technical requirements

Introduction

A library that displays an IP address and the name using sockets

Creating a classic Windows application to use the library

Creating a library that sends mail

Creating a WPF application to use the library

Creating a library to call a REST API

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the library

To iOS with Xamarin

Technical requirements

Introduction

Installing Visual Studio for Mac

Hello iOS – Creating a Xamarin iOS app

Creating the .NET Standard 2.0 library

Putting things together and testing the application

To Android with Xamarin

Technical requirements

Introduction

Hello Android – Creating a Xamarin Android app

Adding a .NET Standard 2.0 library to the Xamarin project

Putting things together and testing the application

Let’s Fine-Tune Our Library

Technical requirements

Introduction

A library logs things itself

Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library

Informing the end user – Exception handling and error messages

Using Visual Studio 2017 diagnostics and debugging tools

Packaging and Delivery

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library

Creating a NuGet package of your library

Submitting the package to NuGet package manager

Creating a classic Windows application and testing the NuGet package

Deploying

Technical requirements

Introduction

Creating a free Azure Cloud subscription

Creating an ASP.NET core web application to use the library from NuGet

Deploying the application to Azure Cloud

Index

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Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses delegates and lambda expressions

In this recipe, we will be using another functionality available in C#. These are called delegates and lambda expressions. What is a delegate in C#? As per the Microsoft documentation, it says:

"A delegate is a type that represents references to methods with a particular parameter list and return type."

Simply put, delegates are used to pass methods as arguments to other methods, and a lambda expression is an anonymous function that you can use to create delegates or expression tree types.

Getting ready

Make sure Visual Studio 2017 is installed and updated to the latest version.

How to do it...

Open Visual Studio 2017.
Click File | New | Project to create a project.
In the New Project dialog box, expand the Other Project Types node in the left-hand pane and select Visual Studio Solutions. In the right-hand pane, select Blank Solution.
In the Name: textbox, type Chapter4.Delegates and, in the Location: textbox, select...

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