C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development, 2/e (Paperback)

Modern Cross-Platform Development

About This Book

• Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core
• Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 7
• Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core

Who This Book Is For

This book is targeted towards readers who have some prior programming experience or have a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) background, and want to gain a solid foundation with C# and to be introduced to the types of applications they could build and will work cross-platform on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

What You Will Learn

• Build cross-platform applications using C# 7 and .NET Core
• Explore ASP.NET Core and learn how to create professional web applications
• Improve your application's performance using multitasking
• Use Entity Framework Core and find out how to build code-first databases
• Master object-oriented programming with C# to increase code reuse and efficiency
• Familiarize yourself with cross-device app development using the Universal Windows Platform and XAML
• Query and manipulate data using LINQ
• Protect your data by using encryption and hashing

In Detail

If you want to build powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core, then this book is for you.

First, we'll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7 such as tuples, pattern matching, out variables, and so on.

After quickly