▶Book Description
If you want to build powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core, then this book is for you.
First, we'll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7 such as tuples, pattern matching, out variables, and so on.
After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we'll dive into the .NET Standard 1.6 class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, serialization and encryption.
The final section will demonstrate the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we'll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, mobile apps, and web services. Lastly, we'll look at how you can package and deploy your applications so that they can be hosted on all of today's most popular platforms, including Linux and Docker.
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 Core.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Build cross-platform applications using C# 7 and .NET Core
⦁ Explore ASP.NET Core and learn how to create professional web applications
⦁ Improve your application's performance using multitasking
⦁ Use Entity Framework Core and find out how to build code-first databases
⦁ Master object-oriented programming with C# to increase code reuse and efficiency
⦁ Familiarize yourself with cross-device app development using the Universal Windows Platform and XAML
⦁ Query and manipulate data using LINQ
⦁ Protect your data by using encryption and hashing
▶Key Features
⦁ Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core
⦁ Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 7
⦁ Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core
▶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.
▶Style and approach
This book takes a step-by-step approach and is filled with exciting projects and fascinating theory. It uses three high-impact sections to equip you with all the tools you'll need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET Core.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!, is about setting up your development environment and using various tools to create the simplest application possible with C#. You will learn how to write and compile code using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows, or Visual Studio Code on macOS, Linux, or Windows. You will learn about the different .NET technologies: .NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Native.
⦁ Chapter 2, Speaking C#, is about the C# language---the grammar and vocabulary that you will use every day to write the source code for your applications. In particular, you will learn how to declare and work with variables of different types.
⦁ Chapter 3, Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions, is about writing code that makes decisions, repeats a block of statements, converts between types, and handles errors. You will also learn the best places to look for help.
⦁ Chapter 4, Using .NET Standard Types, is about commonly used .NET Core types that are part of .NET Standard and how they are related to C#. You will learn about the .NET Standard class library assemblies and the NuGet packages of types that allow your applications to connect existing components to perform common practical tasks, such as manipulating text, storing items in collections, and implementing internationalization.
⦁ Chapter 5, Debugging, Monitoring, and Testing, is about debugging tools, monitoring, diagnosing problems, and testing your code to remove bugs and ensuring high performance, stability, and reliability.
⦁ Chapter 6, Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming, is about all the different categories of members that a type can have, including fields to store data and methods to perform actions. You will use OOP concepts, such as aggregation and encapsulation. You will learn about the C# 7 language features such as tuple syntax support and out variables.
⦁ Chapter 7, Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes, is about deriving new types from existing ones using object-oriented programming (OOP). You will learn how to define operators and C# 7 local functions, delegates and events, how to implement interfaces about base and derived classes, how to override a type member, how to use polymorphism, how to create extension methods, and how to cast between classes in an inheritance hierarchy.
⦁ Chapter 8, Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core, is about reading and writing to databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite, using the object-relational mapping technology known as the Entity Framework Core.
⦁ Chapter 9, Querying and Manipulating Data with LINQ, is about Language INtegrated Query (LINQ)---language extensions that add the ability to work with sequences of items and filter, sort, and project them into different outputs.
⦁ Chapter 10, Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization, is about managing the filesystem, reading and writing to files and streams, text encoding, and serialization.
⦁ Chapter 11, Protecting Your Data, is about protecting your data from being viewed by malicious users using encryption and from being manipulated or corrupted using hashing and signing.
⦁ Chapter 12, Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking, is about allowing multiple actions to occur at the same time to improve performance, scalability, and user productivity.
⦁ Chapter 13, Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML, is about learning the basics of XAML that can be used to define the user interface for a graphical app for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). This app can then run on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and even HoloLens.
⦁ Chapter 14, Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core MVC, is about learning the basics of building web applications with a modern HTTP architecture on the server side using ASP.NET Core MVC. You will learn about the startup configuration, authentication,
routes, models, views, and controllers that make up ASP.NET Core MVC.
⦁ Chapter 15, Building Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET Core Web API, is about learning the basics of how to take C# mobile by building a cross-platform mobile app for iOS and Android that calls a service built on ASP.NET Core Web API. The client-side mobile app will be created with Visual Studio for Mac and the server-side Web API service will be created with Visual Studio Code, both running on macOS.
⦁ Chapter 16, Packaging and Deploying Your Code Cross-Platform, is about publishing your apps and libraries, creating and distributing NuGet packages, and deploying your code crossplatform and to the cloud.
