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

Del Sole, Alessandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484230329 ISBN 13: 9781484230329

Publisher: Apress, 2017

Synopsis

Teaches you how to use the powerful and robust Visual Studio integrated development environment on the Mac

Shows you how to build mobile applications for Android and iOS and Web applications that run on Windows, Linux, and Mac servers

Covers how to build Web applications with Xamarin and .NET Core, two of the hottest developer technologies in the world

About this title

About the Author

Alessandro Del Sole has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2008, and he is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer and Microsoft Certified Professional. Awarded MVP of the Year in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, he is internationally considered a Visual Studio expert and a .NET authority. He has authored many books on programming with Visual Studio, Xamarin, and .NET, and has blogged and written numerous technical articles about Microsoft developer topics in Italian and English for many developer sites, including MSDN Magazine and the Visual Basic Developer Center from Microsoft. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft technical conferences.

From the Back Cover

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
  

This book is for software developers using a Mac computer who want to build mobile or web applications that run on multiple operating systems.

Alessandro Del Sole has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2008 and is recognized internationally as a Visual Studio expert and authority on .NET. He has authored many books on programming with Visual Studio and .NET and regularly blogs and writes technical articles on Microsoft developer topics (Italian and English) for sites, including MSDN Magazine and the Visual Basic Developer Center. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft technical conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484230329
• ISBN 13: 9781484230329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367