Pro .NET 5 Custom Libraries Implementing Custom .NET Data Types

Leverage .NET 5, Microsoft’s bold new cross-platform implementation, for developing your very own cross-platform custom data types and libraries for Windows, Linux, and  macOS.  

The book starts with the purpose and benefits of a custom cross-platform model of .NET data types and its architectural implementation in detail. Next, you will learn fundamental operations such as the equality and inequality operations in .NET 5, demonstrated with sample projects in C#. Implementation of comparison and sorting operations is discussed next followed by a discussion on cloning operations. Here you will learn details of overriding the clone virtual method and its implementation. Moving forward, you will understand custom formatting with specialized .NET data types in various functions and how to implement it. You will then go through .NET reference types along with developing a custom library for working with the software project. Finally, you will explore .NET 5 assemblies and modules followed by their APIs. 

After reading Pro .NET 5 Custom Libraries, you will be able to work on fundamental operations for productivity and quality in your designs of .NET 5 custom data types. 

What You Will Learn

• Work with .NET 5 assemblies
Work with .NET 5 modules
• Understand the logical and physical organization of .NET 5 modules
• Implement custom .NET reference types from scratch
• Implement a custom .NET value type from scratch

CHAPTER 1:  Implementing A Custom .NET Data Type From Scratch.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about the purpose and benefits of a custom cross-platform model of .NET data type, and about the implementation architecture in custom libraries.

NO OF PAGES: 50-90

SUB - TOPICS         

1.       Acronym's.

2.      Architecture for implementation.

3.       Logical Organization.

4.       Data structures.

5.       Deriving from System.Object:

1.       Constructors.

2.       Implementing ReferenceEquals static method.

3.       Overriding ToString virtual method.

4.       Overriding Clone virtual method – first steps.

5.       Implementing MemberwiseClone protected method – first steps.

6.       Implementing others inherited methods.

7.       "Destructors".

6.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

     Custom Libraries.

7.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 2: Implementing Equality and Inequality.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about the implementation of equality and inequality operations.

NO OF PAGES: 50-90

SUB - TOPICS         

 

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Overriding Equals virtual method.

3.       Implementing the required operators.

4.        Implementing System.IEquatable interface.

5.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

      Custom Libraries.

6.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 3: Implementing comparison and sorting.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about the implementation of comparison and sorting operations.

NO OF PAGES: 50-90

SUB - TOPICS         

 

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Implementing System.IComparable and System.IComparable interfaces.

3.       Implementing the required operators.

4.      Sample projects

     C# programming language.

     Custom Libraries.

5.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 4: Implementing cloning operation.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about the implementation of cloning operation.

NO OF PAGES: 50-90

SUB - TOPICS         

 

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Working with clone operation.

3.       Overriding Clone virtual method – Details.

4.      Implementing MemberwiseClone protected method - Details.

5.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

     Custom Libraries.

6.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 5: Implementing a Custom Formatter.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about the implementation of  custom formatting using specialized .NET data types.

NO OF PAGES: 50-90

SUB - TOPICS         

 

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Implementing the System.IFormattable .NET interface.

3.       Overriding System.Object.ToString virtual method.

4.      Working with System.IFormatProvider .NET interface.

5.      Working with System.ICustomFormatter .NET interface.

6.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

      Custom Libraries.

7.      Do's and Don'ts

CHAPTER 6: Working With .NET Value Types.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about .NET System.ValueType the implementation  of a custom .NET value type and the development for a custom library for working with in our software projects.

NO OF PAGES : 50-90

SUB - TOPICS:        

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Implementing a .NET value type from scratch.

3.       The purpose of a .NET value type.

4.       Implementing the equality and inequality operations.

5.       Implementing comparisons and sorting operations.

6.       Implementing custom formatting.

7.       Implementing the required operators.

8.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

      Custom Libraries.

9.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 7: Working With .NET Reference Types.

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about .NET reference type the implementation  of a custom .NET reference type and the development for a custom library for working with in our software projects.

NO OF PAGES : 50-90

SUB - TOPICS:        

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Implementing a .NET reference type from scratch.

3.       The purpose of a .NET reference type.

4.       Implementing the equality and inequality operations.

5.       Implementing comparisons and sorting operations.

6.       Implementing custom formatting.

7.       Implementing the required operators.

8.      Sample projects

      C# programming language.

      Custom Libraries.

9.      Do's and Don'ts.

 

CHAPTER 8: Working With .NET Interface Types

CHAPTER GOAL: In this chapter we will learn about .NET interface type the implementation  of a custom .NET interface type and the development for a custom library for working with in our software projects.

NO OF PAGES : 50-90

SUB - TOPICS:        

1.       Acronym's.

2.       Implementing a .NET interface type from scratch.

3.     

Roger Villela is a software engineer and entrepreneur with almost 30 years of experience in the industry and works as an independent professional. Currently, he is focused on his work as a book author and technical educator and specializes in the inner works of orthogonal features of the following Microsoft development platforms and specialized APIs:

• Microsoft Windows operating system base services
• Microsoft Windows APIs architecture and engineering
• Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
• Microsoft WinRT platform
• Microsoft .NET Framework implementation of the runtime environment (CLR)

His works are based on Microsoft Windows SDK tools and libraries, Microsoft Visual Studio platform (Microsoft Windows), platform foundational APIs: architectures and engineering, and Microsoft Windows operating system using the following programming languages, extensions, and projections: 

C/C++

Assembly (Intel IA-32/Intel 64 (x64/amd64))

Component extensions/projections for runtimes :

C++/CLI

C++/CX

C++/WinRT

C#

Common Intermediate Language (MSIL) implementation for CLR platform