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C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 ??? Modern Cross-Platform Development

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

Languages

C#

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.NET

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Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

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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

Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to declare variables with a specified or an inferred type; we discussed some of the built-in types for numbers, text, and Booleans; we covered how to choose between number types; and we experimented with some operators.

In the next chapter, you will learn about branching, looping, and converting between types.

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Authors (1)

Mark J. Price

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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