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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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Product type Paperback
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

Changes to the expression-bodied members

In C# 6.0, Microsoft introduced the expression-bodied methods and properties, but these had a few limitations, which didn't allow us to use them in the constructors, destructors, and getters/setters of properties.

With C# 7.0, these limitations are no more, and you can now write them for single-liner constructors and destructors, as well as the getter and setter of a property. Here's how you can use them:

    public class Person 
    { 
      private string m_name; 
 
      // constructor 
      public Person() => Console.WriteLine("Constructor called"); 
 
      // destructor 
      ~Person() => Console.WriteLine("Destructor called"); 
 
      // getter/setter properties 
      public string Name 
      { 
        get => m_name; 
        set => m_name = value; 
      } 
    } 

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