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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

You're reading from   Mastering Visual Studio 2017 Build windows apps using WPF and UWP, accelerate cloud development with Azure, explore NuGet, and more

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Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281905
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE? 2. What is New in C# 7.0? FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools 4. Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools 5. Building Applications with .NET Core 6. Managing NuGet Packages 7. Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017 8. Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017 9. Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure 10. Working with Source Controls

Literal improvements in C# 7.0

There were two types of literals supported in C# prior to C# 7.0. They are decimal literals and hexadecimal literals. For example, 490 is a decimal literal, whereas 0x50A or 0X50A is a hexadecimal literal, equivalent to the decimal value 490. Please note that the prefixes 0x and 0X define the same thing.

Here's an example for you to easily understand how a hexadecimal literal is used in C#:

 
    class Program 
    { 
      static void Main(string[] args) 
      { 
        double height = 490; 
        double width = 1290; 
 
        double heightInHex = 0x1EA; // equivalent to decimal 490 
        double widthInHex = 0x50A; // equivalent to decimal 1290 
 
        Console.WriteLine("Height: " + heightInHex + " Width: " + widthInHex); 
      } 
    } 

Along with C# 7.0, Microsoft added more support to literals, and they...

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