You're reading from C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development Create powerful cross-platform applications using C# 7, .NET Core, and Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

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ISBN-13 9781787129559

Length 594 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Using .NET Standard Types

5. Debugging, Monitoring, and Testing

6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

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

15. Building Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET Core Web API

16. Packaging and Deploying Your Code Cross-Platform

A. Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions

Deploying to the cloud

You can deploy your .NET Core applications to the cloud using any cloud provider, for example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC web application to publish

In Visual Studio 2017, add a new ASP.NET Core Web Application (.NET Core) project named Ch16_ImageEditorSite. Choose the Web Application template and enable Docker support, as shown in the following screenshot:

In Visual Studio Code, create a folder named Ch16_ImageEditorSite, and open the folder. In Terminal, enter the command: dotnet new mvc.

Since we are focusing on learning how to publish and deploy, rather than how to build web applications, we will use the MVC template web site as an example. The only addition I made is to add a portrait that my Mum painted of me to the About page, as shown in the following screenshot: