Understanding the bonus chapters
The bonus chapters in this book are the last two chapters:
- Chapter 20, Building Windows Desktop Apps
- Chapter 21, Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Xamarin.Forms
Since this book is about modern cross-platform development using C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0, technically, it should not include coverage of Windows desktop apps because they are Windows-only. Nor should it include coverage of cross-platform mobile apps because they use Xamarin instead of .NET Core.
In Chapters 1 to 19 we are using cross-platform Visual Studio Code to build all the apps. Windows desktop apps are built using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. Cross-platform mobile apps are built using Visual Studio 2019 for Mac and require macOS to compile.
But Windows and mobile are important platforms for current and future client app development using C# and .NET, so I did not want to take away the opportunity to introduce you to them.