Fiqri Ismail - .NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook

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About the author

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.

I would love thank Mr. Arjuna Seneviratna, my first teacher on web-related technologies and Mr. Saman Chandana Silva, who helped me buy my first computer. Also, I would like to thank my wife and daughter for giving their time to complete this book.

About the reviewer

Hansamali Gamage is an experienced professional and Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and technologies from Sri Lanka. She possesses over 5 years of experience in. NET stack and Azure-related services. She is a frequent speaker at local and global tech events, a tech enthusiast, and an award winning writer on the Microsoft Tech Net forum. She works at TIQRI, previously known as Exilesoft, a technology-focused software engineering company with offices in Scandinavia, Asia, and Australia.

I would like to thank my loving family for their continuous help and support.

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Preface

This book is a step-by-step guide to building .NET Standard 2.0 Library and its usage in various .NET platforms. Also, we will demonstrate the usage of the library using ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin Android. Finally, we will guide you through how to package and send your library using the NuGet package manager.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who need to get in touch with the new .NET Standard 2.0 Library. If you have a basic knowledge of C# and what a library can do to your code, that's enough to understand this book. Also, if you are a developer who writes third-party libraries, this will give you a fair idea of what .NET Standard 2.0 Library is and how you can cater to various .NET based platforms in Windows, Linux, and macOS using it.

What this book covers

, Back to Basics , g ives an overview of where it all began for the starters trying to build their first .NET based class library. It talks about the problems with this approach. Getting started with a simple project and using it with a console application and a classic Windows based application, the chapter talks about the issues with the current approach of libraries available. It introduces readers to .NET Standard 2.0 and its versions. How to create the first .NET Standard 2.0 library and use it with various .NET flavors such as .NET Framework and .NET Core applications is covered.

, Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More , explor es the Core of .NET Standard 2.0. It talks about Primitives, Collections, Reflection, and LINQ. The areas supported so far are covered. It makes use of features among different flavors of .NET Framework.

, Working with Files, p rovides an explanation of System.IO and System.Security within the .NET Standard 2.0 and the usage of read write operations using the filesystem. Also, it introduces usage in cross-platform versions of .NET Core in Ubuntu and macOS.

, Functional Programming , i ntroduces functional programming capabilities in C# and how to use them in .NET Standard 2.0 Library.