Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0, 7th Edition

1.NET Applications and Tools

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Reviewing the history of .NET
• Understanding differences between .NET Framework and .NET Core
• NuGet packages
• The Common Language Runtime
• Features of the Windows Runtime
• Programming Hello World!
• .NET Core Command-Line Interface
• Visual Studio 2017
• Universal Windows Platform
• Technologies for creating Windows apps
• Technologies for creating Web apps

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com on the Download Code tab. The source code is also available at https://github.com/ProfessionalCSharp/ProfessionalCSharp7 in the directory HelloWorld.

The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

• HelloWorld
• WebApp
• SelfContained HelloWorld

CHOOSING YOUR TECHNOLOGIES

.NET has been a great technology for creating applications on the Windows platform. Now .NET is a great technology for creating applications on Windows, Linux, and the Mac.

The creation of .NET Core has been the biggest change for .NET since its invention. Now .NET code is open-source code, you can create apps for other platforms, and .NET uses modern patterns. .NET Core and NuGet packages allow Microsoft to provide faster update cycles for delivering new features. It’s not easy to decide what technology should be used for creating applications. This chapter helps you with that. It gives you information about the different technologies available for creating Windows and web ...