- C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition
- C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!
- Choosing your development environment
- Installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 for Windows
- Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code for Windows, macOS, or Linux
- Understanding .NET
- Writing and compiling code using the .NET Core CLI tool
- Writing and compiling code using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
- Writing and compiling code using Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- Managing source code with GitHub
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 2. Speaking C#
- Understanding C# basics
- Declaring variables
- Building console applications
- Operating on variables
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 3. Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
- 4. Using .NET Standard Types
- Using assemblies and namespaces
- Storing and manipulating text
- Storing data with collections
- Internationalizing an application
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 5. Debugging, Monitoring, and Testing
- 6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
- Talking about OOP
- Building class libraries
- Storing data with fields
- Writing and calling methods
- Controlling how parameters are passed
- Splitting classes using partial
- Controlling access with properties and indexers
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
- Setting up a class library and console application
- Simplifying methods with operators
- Defining local functions
- Raising and handling events
- Implementing interfaces
- Managing memory with reference and value types
- Inheriting from classes
- Casting within inheritance hierarchies
- Inheriting and extending .NET types
- Practice and explore
- Summary
- 8. Working with Databases Using the Entity Framework Core
- 9. Querying and Manipulating Data with LINQ
- 10. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
- 11. Protecting Your Data
- 12. Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking
- 13. Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML
- 14. Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core MVC
- Understanding ASP.NET Core
- Exploring an ASP.NET Core MVC web application
- ASP.NET Core MVC controllers
- ASP.NET Core MVC models
- ASP.NET Core MVC views
- Taking ASP.NET Core MVC further
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 15. Building Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET Core Web API
- Understanding Xamarin.Forms
- Building services using ASP.NET Core Web API and Visual Studio Code
- Building mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio for Mac
- Creating a Xamarin.Forms project
- Creating a model
- Creating an interface for dialing phone numbers and implement for iOS and Android
- Creating views for the customers list and customer details
- Test the mobile app with iOS
- Adding NuGet packages for calling a REST service
- Getting customers from the service
- Practicing and exploring
- Summary
- 16. Packaging and Deploying Your Code Cross-Platform
- A. Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions
- Chapter 1 - Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!
- Chapter 2 - Speaking C#
- Chapter 3 - Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions
- Chapter 4 - Using .NET Standard Types
- Chapter 5 - Debugging, Monitoring, and Testing
- Chapter 6 - Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming
- Chapter 7 - Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
- Chapter 8 - Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core
- Chapter 9 - Querying and Manipulating Data with LINQ
- Chapter 10 - Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
- Chapter 11 - Protecting Your Data
- Chapter 12 - Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking
- Chapter 13 - Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML
- Chapter 14 - Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core MVC
- Chapter 15 - Building Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET Core Web API
- Chapter 16 - Packaging and Deploying Your Code Cross-Platform
This chapter is about seeing what can be achieved with XAML when defining the user interface for a graphical app, in particular, for Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
In a single chapter, we will only be able to scratch the surface of everything that can be done with UWP. However, I hope to excite you into wanting to learn more about this cool technology and platform.
Think of this chapter as a whistle-stop tour of the coolest parts of UWP and XAML, including template-able controls, data binding, and animation!
Note
Some important points about this chapter
UWP apps are not cross-platform, but they are cross-device if those devices run a modern flavor of Windows. You will need Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017 to create the examples in this chapter. UWP apps use a custom forked implementation of .NET Core. UWP supports .NET Native, which means that your code is compiled to native CPU instructions for a smaller memory footprint and faster execution.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding Universal Windows Platform
- Understanding XAML
- Creating an app for Universal Windows Platform
- Using resources and templates
- Data binding
- Animating with storyboards
- Testing in emulators
UWP is Microsoft's latest technology solution to build applications for its Windows suite of operating systems.
UWP provides a guaranteed API layer across multiple device types. You can create a single app package that can be uploaded to a single Store to be distributed to reach all the device types your app can run on. These devices include Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and Microsoft HoloLens.
XAML and UWP provide layout panels that adapt how they display their child controls to make the most of the device they are currently running on. It is the Windows app equivalent of web page responsive design.
XAML and UWP provide visual state triggers to alter the layout based on dynamic changes, such as the horizontal or vertical orientation of a tablet.
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