Beginning Visual Studio for Mac: Build Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin and .NET Core

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Del Sole (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quickly learn how to get the most out of the Visual Studio for Mac integrated development environment (IDE).

Microsoft has invested heavily to deliver their very best development tools and platforms to other operating systems. Visual Studio for Mac is a powerful developer tool that reinforces Microsoft’s “mobile-first”, “cloud-first”, and “any developer, any platform, any device” strategy. With the author's guided expertise and extensive code samples, you will understand how to leverage the most useful tools in Visual Studio for Mac, the code editor, and the powerful debugger. You also will appreciate the author's guidance on collaborating with other team members using integrated tooling for the Git source control engine.

Whether you are a Mac developer interested in cross-platform development or a Windows developer using a Mac, Beginning Visual Studio for Mac will quickly get you up to speed!

What You'll Learn

• Prepare, configure, and debug in the Mac development environment
  
• Create cross-platform mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows with Xamarin and C# in Visual Studio for Mac
  
• Build cross-platform Web applications with .NET Core using Visual Studio for Mac
  
• Customize your productive and collaborative development environment

Who This Book Is For

Software developers using a Mac computer who want to build mobile or web applications that run on multiple operating systems

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Configuring the Mac Development Machine (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 3-13
Getting Started with the IDE and with Projects (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 15-85
Debugging Applications (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 87-101
Front Matter ....Pages 103-103
Introducing Xamarin (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 105-110
Building Android Applications (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 111-142
Building iOS Applications (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 143-169
Building Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 171-207
Platform-Specific Code in Xamarin.Forms (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 209-226
Front Matter ....Pages 227-227
Introducing .NET Core (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 229-233
Creating ASP.NET Core Web Applications (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 235-260
Creating RESTful Web API Services (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 261-281
Front Matter ....Pages 283-283
Team Collaboration: Version Control with Git (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 285-303
A Deeper Look at the IDE (Alessandro Del Sole)....Pages 305-339
Back Matter ....Pages 341-345

✦ Subjects

Microsoft and .NET