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You're reading from C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development Create powerful applications with .NET Standard 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework Core 2.0, using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

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ISBN-13 9781788398077

Length 800 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Part 1, C# 7.1

3. Speaking C#

4. Controlling the Flow and Converting Types

5. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

8. Part 2 – .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0

9. Understanding and Packaging .NET Standard Types

10. Using Common .NET Standard Types

11. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

12. Protecting Your Data and Applications

13. Working with Databases Using Entity Framework Core

14. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

15. Improving Performance and Scalability Using Multitasking

16. Part 3 – App Models

17. Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

18. Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVC

19. Building Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET Core

20. Building Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent Design

21. Building Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.Forms

22. Summary

Good luck!

23. Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions

Understanding async and await

C# 5 introduced two keywords to simplify working with the Task type. They are especially useful for the following:

Implementing multitasking for a graphical user interface (GUI)
Improving the scalability of web applications and web services

In Chapter 15, Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET Core MVC, and in Chapter 16, Building Web Services and Applications Using ASP.NET Core, we will explore how the async and await keywords can improve scalability in websites, web services, and web applications.

In Chapter 17, Building Windows Apps Using XAML and Fluent Design, and in Chapter 18, Building Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin.Forms, we will explore how the async and await keywords can implement multitasking with a GUI running on Universal Windows Platform and Xamarin.

For now, let's learn the theory of why these two C# keywords were introduced,...

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Authors (1)

Mark J. Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

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