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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

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


In this recipe, we will be building a .NET Standard 2.0 class library that displays the IP address of the current machine you are on. Then, we will be creating an application that uses the library.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the latest Visual Studio 2017 installed and configured for creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library before you start building the library.

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
  2. Click File | Project to create a project. 
  3. In the New Project dialog box, expand the Other Project Types node in the left pane and select Visual Studio Solutions. In the right pane, select Blank Solution.
  1. In the Name: textbox, type Chapter7.Networking and in the Location: textbox select a path from the drop-down box or click on the Browse... button to locate a path:
  1. Click OK.
  2. Now your Solution Explorer (Ctrl + Alt + L) should look like this:
  1. Now, click the right mouse button on the Chapter7.Networking label in theSolution Explorer and...