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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077361

Length 826 pages

Edition 6th Edition

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Cross Platform Mobile Development

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Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

8. Working with Common .NET Types

9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

12. Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking

13. Introducing Practical Applications of C# and .NET

14. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

15. Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

16. Building and Consuming Web Services

17. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

18. Epilogue

19. Index

Building Windows-only desktop apps

Technologies for building Windows-only desktop apps include:

Windows Forms, 2002.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), 2006.
Windows Store apps, 2012.
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, 2015.
Windows App SDK (formerly WinUI 3 and Project Reunion) apps, 2021.

Understanding legacy Windows application platforms

With the Microsoft Windows 1.0 release in 1985, the only way to create Windows applications was to use the C language and call functions in three core DLLs named kernel, user, and GDI. Once Windows became 32-bit with Windows 95, the DLLs were suffixed with 32 and became known as Win32 API.

In 1991, Microsoft introduced Visual Basic, which provided developers with a visual, drag-and-drop-from-a-toolbox-of-controls way to build the user interface for Windows applications. It was immensely popular, and the Visual Basic runtime is still distributed as part of Windows 10 today.

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