C# 7.1 and .NET core 2.0 - modern cross-platform development / Mark J. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Mark J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual studio.

Microsoft .NET Framework.

Computer programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

C sharp seven and .NET Core modern cross-platform development

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Price Mark J. : Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and. NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

Summary:

C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Third Edition is a practical guide to creating powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0. About This Book Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 2.0 Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 7.1 Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Who This Book Is For This book is targeted towards readers who have some prior programming experience or have a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) background, and want to gain a solid foundation with C# and to be introduced to the types of applications they could build and will work cross-platform on Windows, Linux, and macOS. What You Will Learn Build cross-platform applications using C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 Explore ASP.NET Core 2.0 and learn how to create professional websites, services, and applications Improve your application's performance using multitasking Use Entity Framework Core and LINQ to query and manipulate data Master object-oriented programming with C# to increase code reuse and efficiency Familiarize yourself with cross-device app development using the Universal Windows Platform Protect and manage your files and data with encryption, streams, and serialization Get started with mobile app development using Xamarin.Forms Preview the nullable reference type feature of C# 8 In Detail C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Third Edition, is a practical guide to creating powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0. It gives readers of any experience level a solid foundation in C# and .NET. The first part of the book runs you through the basics of C#, as well as debugging functions and object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7.1 such as default literals, tuples, inferred tuple names, pattern matching, out variables, and more. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, this book dives into the .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries, covering topics such as packaging and deploying your own libraries, and using common libraries for working with collections, performance, monitoring, serialization, files, databases, and encryption. The final section of the book demonstrates the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, you'll learn about websites, web applicati...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!

Setting up your development environment

Using alternative C# IDEs

Deploying cross-platform

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Choosing workloads

Choosing additional components

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code for macOS

Installing .NET Core SDK for macOS

Installing Node Package Manager for macOS

Installing the Visual Studio Code extension for C#

Installing Visual Studio for Mac

Installing Xcode

Downloading and installing Visual Studio for Mac

Understanding .NET

Understanding .NET Framework

Understanding the Mono and Xamarin projects

Understanding .NET Core

Understanding .NET Standard

Understanding .NET Native

Comparing .NET technologies

Writing and compiling code using the .NET Core CLI tool

Writing code using a simple text editor

If you are using Windows Notepad

If you are using macOS TextEdit

Creating and compiling apps using the .NET Core CLI tool

Creating a console application at Command Prompt

Restoring packages, compiling code, and running the application

Fixing compiler errors

Understanding intermediate language

Writing and compiling code using Visual Studio 2017

Writing code using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Compiling code using Visual Studio 2017

Fixing mistakes with the error list

Adding existing projects to Visual Studio 2017

Autoformatting code

Experimenting with C# Interactive

Other useful windows

Writing and compiling code using Visual Studio Code

Writing code using Visual Studio Code

Compiling code using Visual Studio Code

Autoformatting code.

Writing and compiling code using Visual Studio for Mac

Next steps

Managing source code with GitHub

Using Git with Visual Studio 2017

Using the Team Explorer window

Cloning a GitHub repository

Managing a GitHub repository

Using Git with Visual Studio Code

Configuring Git at the command line

Managing Git with Visual Studio Code

Practicing and exploring

Exercise 1.1 - Test your knowledge

Exercise 1.2 - Practice C# anywhere

Exercise 1.3 - Explore topics

Summary

Part 1: C# 7.1

Chapter 2: Speaking C#

Understanding C# basics

Using Visual Studio 2017

Using Visual Studio Code on macOS, Linux, or Windows

C# grammar

Statements

Comments

Blocks

C# vocabulary

Help for writing correct code

Verbs are methods

Nouns are types, fields, and variables

Revealing the extent of the C# vocabulary

Building and running with Visual Studio 2017

Building and running with Visual Studio Code

Adding more types with Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code

Declaring variables

Naming variables

Literal values

Storing text

Storing numbers

Storing whole numbers

C# 7 improvements

Storing real numbers

Using Visual Studio Code

Writing code to explore numbers

Comparing double and decimal types

Storing Booleans

The object type

The dynamic type

Local variables

Specifying the type of a local variable

Inferring the type of a local variable

Making a value type nullable

Understanding nullable reference types

The billion-dollar mistake

Changing the defaults for nullable types in C# 8.0

Checking for null

Storing multiple values in an array

Exploring console applications further

Displaying output to the user

Getting input from the user

Importing a namespace

Simplifying the usage of the console.

Reading arguments and working with arrays

Passing arguments with Visual Studio 2017

Passing arguments with Visual Studio Code

Viewing the output

Enumerating arguments

Running on Windows

Running on macOS

Handling platforms that do not support an API

Operating on variables

Experimenting with unary operators

Experimenting with arithmetic operators

Comparison and Boolean operators

Exercise 2.1 - Test your knowledge

Exercise 2.2 - Practice number sizes and ranges

Exercise 2.3 - Explore topics

Chapter 3: Controlling the Flow and Converting Types

Selection statements

The if statement

The code

Pattern matching with the if statement

The switch statement

Pattern matching with the switch statement

Iteration statements

The while statement

The do statement

The for statement

The foreach statement

Casting and converting between types

Casting from numbers to numbers

Casting numbers implicitly

Casting numbers explicitly

Using the convert type

Rounding numbers

Converting from any type to a string

Converting from a binary object to a string

Parsing from strings to numbers or dates and times

Handling exceptions when converting types

The try statement

Catching all exceptions

Catching specific exceptions

Checking for overflow

The checked statement

The unchecked statement

Looking for help

Microsoft Docs and MSDN

Go to definition

Stack Overflow

Google

Subscribing to blogs

Design patterns

Singleton pattern

Exercise 3.1 - Test your knowledge

Exercise 3.2 - Explore loops and overflow

Exercise 3.3 - Practice loops and operators.

Exercise 3.4 - Practice exception handling

Exercise 3.5 - Explore topics

Chapter 4: Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Writing functions

Writing a times table function

Writing a function that returns a value

Writing mathematical functions

Formatting numbers for output

Calculating factorials with recursion

Debugging an application during development

Creating an application with a deliberate bug

Setting a breakpoint

The debugging toolbar

Debugging windows

Stepping through code

Customizing breakpoints

Logging during development and runtime

Instrumenting with Debug and Trace

Writing to the default trace listener

Configuring trace listeners

Switching trace levels

Unit testing functions

Creating a class library that needs testing with Visual Studio 2017

Creating a unit test project with Visual Studio 2017

Creating a class library that needs testing with Visual Studio Code

Writing unit tests

Running unit tests with Visual Studio 2017

Running unit tests with Visual Studio Code

Exercise 4.1 - Test your knowledge

Exercise 4.2 - Practice writing functions with debugging and unit testing

Exercise 4.3 - Explore topics

Chapter 5: Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Talking about OOP

Building class libraries

Creating a class library with Visual Studio 2017

Creating a class library with Visual Studio Code

Defining a class

Instantiating a class

Referencing an assembly using Visual Studio 2017

Referencing an assembly using Visual Studio Code

Managing multiple projects with Visual Studio Code

Inheriting from System.Object

Storing data with fields

Defining fields

Understanding access modifiers

Storing a value using the enum keyword.

Storing multiple values using collections

Making a field static

Making a field constant

Making a field read-only

Initializing fields with constructors

Setting fields with default literal

Writing and calling methods

Combining multiple values with tuples

Defining methods with tuples

Naming the fields of a tuple

Inferring tuple names

Deconstructing tuples

Defining and passing parameters to methods

Overloading methods

Optional parameters and named arguments

Controlling how parameters are passed

Splitting classes using partial

Controlling access with properties and indexers

Defining read-only properties

Defining settable properties

Defining indexers

Exercise 5.1 - Test your knowledge

Exercise 5.2 - Explore topics

Chapter 6: Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Setting up a class library and console application

Defining the classes

Simplifying methods with operators

Implementing some functionality with a method

Implementing some functionality with an operator

Defining local functions

Raising and handling events

Calling methods using delegates

Defining events

Using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

Implementing interfaces

Common interfaces

Comparing objects when sorting

Attempting to sort objects without a method to compare

Defining a method to compare

Defining a separate comparer

Making types more reusable with generics

Making a generic type

Making a generic method

Managing memory with reference and value types

Defining a struct type

Releasing unmanaged resources

Ensuring that dispose is called

Inheriting from classes

Extending classes.

Hiding members.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 3, 2018).

ISBN:

9781788478694

178847869X

OCLC:

1019129025