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The .NET Standard is a standard that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement, making it easy for developers to access and use one common library for their development needs. This book begins with a quick refresher, helping you understand the mechanics of the new standard and offering insight into how it works. You’ll explore the core library concepts, such as working with collections, configurations, I/O, security, and multithreading. You’ll explore the iOS and Android libraries of Xamarin and we’ll guide you through creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library, which you’ll use with both Android and iOS applications.
In the final chapters, you’ll learn the various debugging and diagnostics tools to deliver quality libraries and create a NuGet package of the .NET Standard 2.0 library. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to expand your current workflow to various .NET flavors and have the essential skills to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch to package and deliver it to the world.
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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.
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.NET Standard 2.0 Cookbook
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Back to Basics
Technical requirements
Introduction 
Creating a C#-based console application
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating a C# class library 
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a classic Windows-based application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a WPF-based application to use the library 
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Hello Universe – My first .NET Standard class library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Windows console-based application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an ASP.NET Core-based web application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More
Technical requirements
Introduction
Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses primitives
Getting ready 
How to do it...
How it works...
A .NET console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating collections
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
A WPF application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Describing our library with Reflections
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
A .NET Core console application to use the library
Getting ready 
How to do it...
How it works...
Building a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses LINQ
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
An ASP.NET MVC application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Working with Files
Technical requirements
Introduction
Setting up .NET Core in Ubuntu
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a log as text
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an ASP.NET Core application in Ubuntu to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it..
How it works...
Setting up .NET Core in macOS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Reading from a comma separated (CSV) text file
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Core console application in macOS to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Compressing? Why not?
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a classic Windows application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Encrypting and decrypting content in a text file
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a classic Windows application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Functional Programming
Technical requirements
Introduction
Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses tuples
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Razor Pages web application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library that uses delegates and lambda expressions
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
XML and Data
Technical requirements
Introduction
Creating a library that reads and writes to an XML file
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the XMLLib library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Processing an XML file using LINQ to XML
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Exploring Threading
Technical requirements
Introduction
Creating a library that can perform several things at once
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an async method with tasks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a WPF application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a thread pool
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Networking
Technical requirements
Introduction
A library that displays an IP address and the name using sockets
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a classic Windows application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a library that sends mail
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a WPF application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a library to call a REST API
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an ASP.NET MVC application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it..
How it works...
To iOS with Xamarin
Technical requirements
Introduction
Installing Visual Studio for Mac
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Hello iOS – Creating a Xamarin iOS app
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating the .NET Standard 2.0 library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Putting things together and testing the application
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
To Android with Xamarin
Technical requirements
Introduction
Hello Android – Creating a Xamarin Android app
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding a .NET Standard 2.0 library to the Xamarin project
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Putting things together and testing the application
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Let’s Fine-Tune Our Library
Technical requirements
Introduction
A library logs things itself
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a .NET Core console application to use the library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Informing the end user – Exception handling and error messages
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using Visual Studio 2017 diagnostics and debugging tools
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Packaging and Delivery
Technical requirements
Introduction
Creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a NuGet package of your library
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Submitting the package to NuGet package manager
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a classic Windows application and testing the NuGet package
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Deploying
Technical requirements
Introduction
Creating a free Azure Cloud subscription
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an ASP.NET core web application to use the library from NuGet
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Deploying the application to Azure Cloud
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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.
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.
Chapter 1, Back to Basics, gives 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.
Chapter 2, Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More, explores 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.
Chapter 3, Working with Files, provides 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.
Chapter 4, Functional Programming, introduces functional programming capabilities in C# and how to use them in .NET Standard 2.0 Library.
Chapter 5, XML and Data, explains the usage of System.XML and System.Data within .NET Standard 2.0 for creating XML Documents and the usage of Data Tables.
Chapter 6, Exploring Threading, talks about Thread support for creating a multithreaded .NET Standard 2.0 library. This is in addition to the usage of Tasks as asynchronous capabilities of C# within the library.
Chapter 7, Networking, focuses on the usage of System.Net within .NET Standard 2.0. It dives into Sockets, Http, and Mail and how to use them in a .NET Standard Library 2.0.
Chapter 8, To iOS with Xamarin, outlines creating a simple mobile-based application using Visual Studio for Mac mobile iOS tools. The chapter guides through to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library and use it with the built iOS application.
Chapter 9, To Android with Xamarin, takes you through creating a simple mobile-based application using Visual Studio for Mac and Android tools. It showcases how to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library and use it with the built Android application.
Chapter 10, Let's Fine-Tune Our Library, demonstrates how to fine-tune .NET Standard 2.0 library using Debugging tools and Diagnostics tools. Also, it helps you capture exceptions and ensure that the end user has a solid experience using our .NET Standard Library 2.0.
Chapter 11, Packaging and Delivery, discusses how to deliver a completed .NET Standard 2.0 Library to the world. How to use NuGet package manager, creating a package, and delivering it is covered.
Chapter 12, Deploying, informs how to create a .NET Standard Library 2.0, use it with ASP.NET Core web applications, and deploy it to Azure Cloud.
This book assumes that readers have basic knowledge of C#. Also, it assumes basic knowledge of using Visual Studio, installing packages using NuGet, and referencing libraries within projects from other projects.
Basic knowledge of using command-line tools such as bash on Ubuntu and terminal in macOS will be an added advantage but not a must.
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In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Creating a C#-based console application
Creating a C# class library
Creating a classic Windows application to use the library
Creating a WPF-based application to use the library
Hello Universe – My first .NET Standard class library
Creating a Windows console-based application to use the library
Creating a ASP.NET Core-based web application to use the library
Readers should have a basic knowledge of C#. They should also have a basic knowledge of using Visual Studio, installing packages using NuGet, and referencing libraries within projects from other projects.
The code files for this chapter can be found on GitHub:https://github.com/PacktPublishing/DotNET-Standard-2-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter01
Check out the following video to see the code in action:https://goo.gl/PoR4HM
Microsoft .NET is a general-purpose development platform with support for multiple programming languages, which is a key feature. Other key features include asynchronous and concurrent programming models and native interoperability. The .NET Framework supports multiple programming languages, such as C#, VB.NET, and F#, which are actively developed and supported by Microsoft. In this book, we are going to look at C#.
C# is a modern, object-oriented, type-safe programming language that helps developers build robust, secure applications using the .NET Framework. C# was introduced with .NET Framework 1.0 in 2002. Since that time, C# has evolved and matured. At the time of writing, the current version of C# is 7.0 and .NET has various flavors to use with the following:
.NET Framework
: The full flavor of .NET that is distributed with Windows. Used by developers to build ASP.NET 4.5/4.6 under Windows or desktop Windows applications.
.NET Core
: Another flavor of .NET that runs under Windows, Mac, and Linux. Used by developers to build cross-platform .NET-based applications including cross-platform web applications, using ASP.NET Core.
Xamarin
: A mono-based framework used for mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Windows phone devices. macOS desktop applications are supported with this flavor.
.NET Standard
: A replacement for
Portable Class Libraries
(
PCL
) used by developers to share code among all platforms, but supported with APIs in the latest version, 2.0. Also, you should note that .NET Standard 2.0 is supported in .NET Core 2.0, .NET Framework 4.6.1, and later versions, as well as in Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.3).
Let's get started with a simple C#-based console application. This console application will introduce some basic C# code and get things up and running for the library we are going to build in the next recipe. Our main focus is to get to the C# coding and prepare ourselves for all the excitement we are going to have later.
To step through this recipe, you will need a running copy of Visual Studio 2017 with the latest version of .NET Framework. If you don't have a copy of Visual Studio 2017, you can download it from https://www.visualstudio.com/.
This will take you to Microsoft's Visual Studio website. Follow the instructions on the site to get a copy of Visual Studio and get things started.
Let us take a quick look at what we did in the previous recipe. In steps 1 to 4, we created a C#-based console application. The skeleton for a console application already comes with Visual Studio as a template. Giving a proper name to your project and a location is a good habit. These things will help you to track down your project easily for future use. In step 5, we just make sure the default console application template works fine and that there are no surprises waiting for us before doing any actual coding.
In step 6, we created a static method that takes a string parameter and returns a message with that parameter; this is called String Interpolation. It's a new feature introduced in C# 6.0 and can be used instead of the traditional string.format() method. Step 7 uses that method inside the main method. As in a normal console application, Console.ReadLine() will wait till any key is pressed before exiting. Finally, in step 9, we debug the code to check that everything works fine and as expected.
C# fundamentals (
Chapter 2
,
Primitives, Collections, LINQ, and More
)
Creating Windows-based applications using C# (Creating a classic Windows-based application to use the Library—
Chapter 1
,
Back to Basics
)
In this recipe, we are going to build a simple C# class library. This library will have a simple public method that takes a parameter and returns a string. Also, we will be creating a blank Visual Studio solution and adding the library project. This solution will be used in later recipes.
Make sure you have installed a flavor of Visual Studio 2017 and its latest updates. At the time of writing, the latest Visual Studio 2017 version is 15.3.5.
Open Visual Studio 2017.
Click
File
|
New
|
Project
and, in the
New Project
template dialog box, select
Visual Studio Solutions
under the
Other Project Types
node in the left-hand pane, and select
Blank Solution
in the right-hand pane:
In the
Name:
textbox, type a name for your application. In this case, type
Chapter1.Library
. Select a preferred location under the
Location:
drop-down list or click the
Browse...
button and select a location. Leave the defaults as they are:
Now you have a blank solution. Let's add a C# class library project to the solution. Click
Project
|
Add New
Item...
or you can right-click on the
Chapter1.Library
solution label in the
Solution Explorer
, and select
Add
|
New Project...
.
In the
Add New Project
template dialog box, select
Visual C#
in the left side, pane and select
Class Library (.NET Framework)
in the right-hand pane:
In the
Name:
textbox, type a name for your class library. In this case, type
Chapter1.Library.HelloLib
