Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0

1439 Pages·2016·39.83 MB·English

by  Christian Nagel

PROFESSIONAL
C# 7 AND .NET CORE 2.0
INTRODUCTION .................................................... liii
▸ PART I THE C# LANGUAGE
ChAPTER 1 .NET Applications and Tools ................................ 3
ChAPTER 2 Core C# ................................................ 37
ChAPTER 3 Objects and Types ....................................... 75
ChAPTER 4 Object-Oriented Programming with C# ..................... 109
ChAPTER 5 Generics .............................................. 129
ChAPTER 6 Operators and Casts .................................... 151
ChAPTER 7 Arrays ................................................ 193
ChAPTER 8 Delegates, Lambdas, and Events ........................... 215
ChAPTER 9 Strings and Regular Expressions ........................... 235
ChAPTER 10 Collections ............................................ 255
ChAPTER 11 Special Collections ...................................... 287
ChAPTER 12 Language Integrated Query ..............................305
ChAPTER 13 Functional Programming with C# ..........................343
ChAPTER 14 Errors and Exceptions ................................... 367
ChAPTER 15 Asynchronous Programming .............................. 391
ChAPTER 16 Reflection, Metadata, and Dynamic Programming ............. 411
ChAPTER 17 Managed and Unmanaged Memory ........................ 439
ChAPTER 18 Visual Studio 2017 ...................................... 479
▸ PART II .NET CORE AND THE WINDOWS RUNTIME
ChAPTER 19 Libraries, Assemblies, Packages, and NuGet ................. 539
ChAPTER 20 Dependency Injection ................................... 559
ChAPTER 21 Tasks and Parallel Programming ........................... 583
ChAPTER 22 Files and Streams ....................................... 631
Continues
ChAPTER 23 Networking ............................................ 669
ChAPTER 24 Security ............................................... 713
ChAPTER 25 ADO.NET and Transactions ............................... 741
ChAPTER 26 Entity Framework Core .................................. 769
ChAPTER 27 Localization ............................................ 831
ChAPTER 28 Testing ...............................................863
ChAPTER 29 Tracing, Logging, and Analytics ............................ 895
▸ PART III WEB APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
ChAPTER 30 ASP.NET Core .......................................... 923
ChAPTER 31 ASP.NET Core MVC ..................................... 963
ChAPTER 32 Web API ............................................. 1039
▸ PART IV APPS
ChAPTER 33 Windows Apps ........................................ 1083
ChAPTER 34 Patterns with XAML Apps ............................... 1157
ChAPTER 35 Styling Windows Apps .................................. 1195
ChAPTER 36 Advanced Windows Apps ............................... 1239
ChAPTER 37 Xamarin.Forms ........................................ 1291
INDEX .......................................................... 1327
▸ ONLINE CHAPTERS
BONUS ChAPTER 1 Composition ................................... OC1
BONUS ChAPTER 2 XML and JSON ................................. OC33
BONUS ChAPTER 3 WebHooks and SignalR .......................... OC71
BONUS ChAPTER 4 Bots and Cognitive Services ....................... OC99
BONUS ChAPTER 5 More Windows Apps Features .................... OC123
PROFESSIONAL
C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0

PROFESSIONAL
C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0
Christian Nagel
Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0
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ABOUT ThE AUTh OR
ChRISTIAN NAGEL is Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and Development
Technologies and has been Microsoft Regional Director for more than 15 years.
Christian founder of CN innovation, where he offers coaching, training, code reviews,
and assistance with architecting and developing solutions using Microsoft technologies.
He draws on more than 25 years of software development experience.
Christian started his computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS systems at Digital
Equipment Corporation, covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since 2000,
when .NET was just a technology preview, he has been working with various technolo-
gies to build .NET solutions. Currently, he mainly coaches people on development and
architecting Windows apps, ASP.NET Core web applications, and Xamarin and helps them use several
Microsoft Azure service offerings.
Even after many years in software development, Christian still loves learning and using new technologies
and teaching others how to use the new technologies in various forms. Using his profound knowledge of
Microsoft technologies, he has written numerous books and is certified as Microsoft Certified Trainer and
Certified Solution Developer. Christian speaks at international conferences such as Microsoft Ignite (previ-
ously named TechEd), BASTA! and TechDays. He founded INETA Europe to support .NET user groups.
You can contact Christian via his website www.cninnovation.com, read his blog at https://csharp
.christiannagel.com, and follow his tweets at @christiannagel.