- 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
The instructions and screenshots in this section are for macOS, but the same actions will work with Visual Studio Code on either Windows or Linux. The main differences will be native command-line actions such as deleting a file: both the command and the path are likely to be different. The dotnet CLI tool will be identical on all platforms.
Start Visual Studio Code.
Navigate to File | Open..., or press Cmd + O.
In the dialog box, open the Code folder, select the Chapter01 folder, click the New Folder button, enter the name Ch01_WelcomeDotNetCore, and click Create, as shown in the following screenshot:
Select the Ch01_WelcomeDotNetCore folder, and click Open or press Enter.
In Visual Studio Code, navigate to View | Integrated Terminal, or press Ctrl + `.
At the Terminal prompt, enter the following command:
dotnet new console
You will see that the dotnet command-line tool creates a new console application project for you in the current folder, and the Explorer window shows the two files created, as shown in the following screenshot:
In the Explorer window, click on the file named Program.cs to open it in the editor window.
When you see the warnings about required assets and unresolved dependencies, click Restore and Yes, as shown in the following screenshot:
Modify the text that is being written to the console to say, Welcome, .NET Core!
On the File menu, choose Auto Save. This toggle will save the annoyance of remembering to save before rebuilding your application each time!
Navigate to View | Integrated Terminal or press Ctrl + ` and enter the following command:
dotnet run
The output in the Terminal will show the result of running your application, as shown in the following screenshot:
You now know how to create and build simple .NET Core applications for Windows and macOS (and Linux is just as easy).
You will be able to complete almost all the chapters in this book using either Visual Studio 2017 on Windows or using Visual Studio Code on macOS, Windows, or Linux.
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