
C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development

This chapter is about seeing what can be achieved with XAML when defining the user interface for a graphical app, in particular, for Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
In a single chapter, we will only be able to scratch the surface of everything that can be done with UWP. However, I hope to excite you into wanting to learn more about this cool technology and platform.
Think of this chapter as a whistle-stop tour of the coolest parts of UWP and XAML, including template-able controls, data binding, and animation!
Some important points about this chapter
UWP apps are not cross-platform, but they are cross-device if those devices run a modern flavor of Windows. You will need Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017 to create the examples in this chapter. UWP apps use a custom forked implementation of .NET Core. UWP supports .NET Native, which means that your code is compiled to native CPU instructions for a smaller memory...
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