Check Professional C# and .NET - 2021 Edition for the code samples of the next edition of the book.
Code samples for the Wrox Press book Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0
To compile and run the samples, you need Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Mac, or Visual Studio Code.
You can download these tools here: Visual Studio.
The console app samples can be used on Windows, Linux, or Mac. Here is the installation procedure for .NET Core: .NET on Linux
If you're using Visual Studio, Update 5 or a later version of Visual Studio 2017 is needed. With the Visual Studio Installer you need to select this workload to compile most of the code samples: .NET Core cross-platform development.
ASP.NET Core samples need this workload: ASP.NET and web development.
Windows app samples require Windows 10, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (build 16299) or a later version. With the Windows app samples, Visual Studio 2017 Update 5 is required with this workload: Universal Windows Platform Development.
Compiling the Xamarin samples, you have different options using a Mac or a Windows system:
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On the Mac, you can install Visual Studio for Mac to compile the Android and iOS samples.
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On Windows 10, you can use Visual Studio 2017. To compile the iOS samples, you also need a Mac. Using only Windows 10, you can compile and run the Windows and Android code samples.
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Visual Studio 2017 with the .NET Core workload
Here's the list of chapters and the folders for the code samples:
- Chapter 1 - .NET Applications and Tools (HelloWorld)
- Chapter 2 - Core C# (CoreCsharp)
- Chapter 3 - Objects and Types (ObjectsAndTypes)
- Chapter 4 - Object-Oriented Programming with C# (ObjectOrientation)
- Chapter 5 - Generics (Generics)
- Chapter 6 - Operators and Casts (OperatorsAndCasts)
- Chapter 7 - Arrays (Arrays)
- Chapter 8 - Delegates, Lambdas, and Events (Delegates)
- Chapter 9 - Strings and Regluar Expressions (StringsAndRegularExpressions)
- Chapter 10 - Collections (Collections)
- Chapter 11 - Special Collections (SpecialCollections)
- Chapter 12 - Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Chapter 13 - Functional Programming with C# (FunctionalProgramming)
- Chapter 14 - Errors and Exceptions (ErrorsAndExceptions)
- Chapter 15 - Asynchronous Programming (Async)
- Chapter 16 - Reflection, Metadata, and Dynamic Programming (ReflectionAndDynamic)
- Chapter 17 - Managed and Umanaged Memory (Memory)
- Chapter 18 - Visual Studio 2017 (VisualStudio)
- Chapter 19 - Libraries, Assemblies, Packages, and NuGet (Libraries)
- Chapter 20 - Dependency Injection (DependencyInjection)
- Chapter 21 - Tasks and Parallel Programming (Tasks)
- Chapter 22 - Files and Streams (FilesAndStreams)
- Chapter 23 - Networking (Networking)
- Chapter 24 - Security (Security)
- Chapter 25 - ADO.NET and Transactions (ADONet)
- Chapter 26 - Entity Framework Core (EFCore)
- Chapter 27 - Localization (Localization)
- Chapter 28 - Testing (Tests)
- Chapter 29 - Tracing, Logging, and Analytics (Diagnostics)
- Chapter 30 - ASP.NET Core (ASPNETCore)
- Chapter 31 - ASP.NET Core MVC (MVC)
- Chapter 32 - Web API (API)
- Chapter 33 - Windows Apps (Windows)
- Chapter 34 - Patterns with XAML Apps (Patterns and PatternsXamarinShared)
- Chapter 35 - Styling Windows Apps (Styles)
- Chapter 36 - Advanced Windows (AdvancedWindows)
- Chapter 37 - Xamarin.Forms (Xamarin and PatternsXamarinShared)
- Bonus Chapter 1 - Composition (Composition)
- Bonus Chapter 2 - XML and JSON (XMLandJSON)
- Bonus Chapter 3 - SignalR and WebHooks (SignalRAndWebHooks)
- Bonus Chapter 4 - Bots and Cognitive Services (BotAndCognitive)
- Bonus Chapter 5 - More Windows Apps Features (MoreWindows)
- Bonus Chapter 6 - What's new with C# 8 (CSharp8)
In case you've some issues to compile and run the samples, create an issue in the Professional C# 7 GitHub repository.
Have fun coding and enjoy the book!
Christian