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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

You're reading from .NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook Develop high quality, fast and portable applications by leveraging the power of .NET Standard Library

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788834667

Length 394 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ismail

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Back to Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More

3. Working with Files

4. Functional Programming

5. XML and Data

6. Exploring Threading

7. Networking

8. To iOS with Xamarin

9. To Android with Xamarin

10. Let’s Fine-Tune Our Library

11. Packaging and Delivery

12. Deploying

Index

Installing Visual Studio for Mac

In this recipe, we will be looking at how to get Visual Studio for Mac and install it. We will also be looking at setting up a few other things.

Getting ready

Make sure you have a Mac to complete this recipe. Currently, I am using macOS High Sierra version 10.13.3. Also make sure you have already installed the latest version of XCode. XCode is required, alongside Visual Studio, for Mac to build iOS applications.

How to do it...

Let's open up your favorite browser.
Type https://www.xamarin.com/download in the address bar and press Enter.
You should see a screen similar to this:

Now, fill in your details and press the Download VS for Mac Community button.
This will download a file to the Downloads directory by default, named VisualStudioForMacInstaller__215259590.1517557727.dmg or something similar (the end numbers might change when you download it.)
Double-click on that file.

You should see a window similar to this:

Double-click on the down arrow. In the next screen...

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Authors (1)

Ismail

Ismail

Fiqri Ismail is an experienced architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, C#, Microsoft Azure, PHP, and Delphi, he is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Related Technologies for 11 concussive years to date. He is also a community leader and a speaker at Sri Lanka Developer Forum and in Global Events such as Microsoft Tech Summit and Global Azure Bootcamp.

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