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Beginning Modern C# and .NET Development

By : Reynald Adolphe
Book Image

Beginning Modern C# and .NET Development

By: Reynald Adolphe

Overview of this book

The course will initially begin with familiarizing you to the different .NET technologies and Visual Studio 2017. Beginning from the basic concepts of declaring and working with variables, we move on to writing code that makes decisions, repeats a block of statements, converts between types, and handles errors. You will also learn about .NET Core and its class library assemblies, and packages of types that are defined in .NET Standard that allow your applications to connect existing components together to perform common practical tasks. You will then learn to make your own types using object-oriented programming (OOP) and learn how to read and write to databases. You will then see what can be achieved with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) when defining the user interface for a graphical app, in particular, for Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Finally, we look at building web applications with a modern HTTP architecture on the server side using Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC. All the resources and support files are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Beginning-Modern-CSharp-and-DotNet-Development---eLearning
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 6
Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML
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Section 3
Understanding XAML
In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which was the first technology to use XAML. It is still used to create desktop applications. XAML can be used to create: - UWP apps for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and Microsoft HoloLens - Windows Store apps for Windows 8 and 8.1 - WPF applications for the Windows desktop, including Windows 7 and later - Silverlight applications for web browsers, Windows Phone, and desktop