C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development: Create powerful applications with .NET Standard 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework Core 2.0, using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

by Mark J. Price

Overview

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 applications, web services, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, and mobile apps. By the end of the book, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788478694
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	79 MB
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About the Author

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, and Episerver Certified Developer, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience.
Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams, and he specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide.
Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full-time 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 Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET.
Currently, Mark creates and delivers classroom and e-learning training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. He is an Episerver Certified Developer (ECD) on Episerver CMS.
In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc Hons. degree from the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!
2. Part 1 + Speaking C#
3. Controlling Flow and Converting Types
4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions
5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
7. Part 2 + Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
8. Understanding and Packaging .NET Standard Types
9. Using Common .NET Standard Types
10. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
11. Protecting Your Data and Applications
12. Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core
13. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
14. Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking
15. Part 3 + Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
16. Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVC
17. Building Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET Core
18. Building Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent Design
19. Building Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.Forms
20. Summary + Answers to test your knowledge