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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

You're reading from   C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 Modern Cross-Platform Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285691
Length 550 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core! FREE CHAPTER 2. Speaking C# 3. Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions 4. Using Common .NET Types 5. Using Specialized .NET Types 6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming 7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes 8. Working with Relational Data Using the Entity Framework 9. Querying and Manipulating Data with LINQ 10. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization 11. Protecting Your Data and Applications 12. Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking 13. Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML 14. Building Web Applications and Services Using ASP.NET Core 15. Taking C# Cross-Platform 16. Building a Quiz A. Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions B. Creating a Virtual Machine for Your Development Environment Index

Understanding cross-platform development

Cross-platform development means being able to both write code and run the results on operating systems other than Windows.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an open source, cross-platform, extensible, code-focused editor with some basic IDE features based on Google's Chromium project. Microsoft and Google have worked closely together to ensure that Visual Studio Code is a decent choice for cross-platform development.

However, it has significant limitations compared to Visual Studio 2015. Luckily, you can use Visual Studio 2015 on Windows for your initial development and then open the same files in Visual Studio Code when you need to work with your code on other platforms.

.NET Core 1.0

.NET Core 1.0 is a forked open source and cross-platform implementation of .NET that is designed for modern development. It is a subset of the Windows-only .NET Framework, but it has the advantage of running cross-platform across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux operating...

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