Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION iii

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

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

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