C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development t is a practical guide to creating powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0. It takes readers of any experience level through to a solid foundation in C# and .NET. The first part of the book runs you through the basics of C#, as well as debugging functions and object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7.1 such as default literals, tuples, inferred tuple names, pattern matching, out variables, and more.

After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 dives into the .NET Standard 2.0 class libraries, covering topics such as packaging and deploying your own libraries, and using common libraries for working with collections, performance, monitoring, serialization, files, databases, and encryption. The final section of the book demonstrates the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, you’ll learn about web sites, web applications, web services, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, and mobile apps. By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET.