C# 7 and .NET Core Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition: Create powerful cross-platform applications using C# 7, .NET Core, and Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

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Modern Cross-Platform Development 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 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 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. Review: Great book, great value! - Great book from a great writer. Coming from an PHP / Open Source background, I'd alway been a little bit sceptcial of ASP.net, but the strides MS are making in opening in up the environment and making it multi-platform, really piqued my interest. Had a bit of experience with C#, but this took me further and I'm now starting to get to the point where I'm going to create my next web app in .NetCore. The book assumes no real knowledge of C#, but covers the basics. I skipped most of that and dug in to the more meaty bits (starting with custom events / delegates). All my questions were answered, due to the clarity of explanations. I programmed most of the examples using a Mac and then added my files to OneDrive, so that I could continue on my PC. Happy reading. Review: Great discussion of where Microsoft is headed currently - Great discussion of where Microsoft is headed currently. It is oriented at fairly novice programmers and walks at a nice pace though how to program. Thus the book doesn't go into depth on more sophisticated/special purpose functionality. Not the best examples (in comparison to those in the Nutshell series), but a nice clear writing style makes the topics quite understandable. Great book to get started and to piece together the many technologies popping out of Redmond these days!