Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter Goal: An overview of the book and topics to be covered including tools and framework installation guide.
No of pages 15
Sub -Topics
1. Background
2. What is a Working Memory?
3. What You Will Lean
4. Development Tools Download Resource
5. Installation Guide
6. Prerequisites
7. Five Players, One Goal
Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter Goal: To present game objective, application flow, preparing the workspace and database setup.
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. Game Objective 2. Application Flow
3. Creating the Workspace
4. The Required NuGet Packages
5. Setting Up a New Database
Chapter 3: Configure Data Access and API Endpoints Chapter Goal: To configure data access for handling CRUD operations and as well as defining the necessary API endpoints.
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics:
1. Integrating Entity Framework
2. Setting Up a Data Access
3. Implementing CRUD operations 4. The Web API Endpoints
5. Enabling CORS
Chapter 4: Building the Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms Chapter Goal: To build a mobile that allow users to register and login into the app. To implement a simple game to test how sharp their memory is and to be able to sync their highest scores/level in real-time in the database.
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Creating the Mobile App Project
2. Implementing Platform Specific Services for iOS and Android
3. Setting Permissions
Chapter 5: Deployment and Installation Chapter Goal: Deploy and install the mobile app in real device.
No of pages: 10
Sub - Topics:
1. Android
2. iOS
3. Output
Chapter 6: Building a Real-time Leaderboard Chapter Goal: To provide a website that displays user rankings in real-time using ASP.NET MVC and SignalR.
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics:
1. What is ASP.NET MVC?
2. What is ASP.NET SignalR?
3. Integrating ASP.NET SignalR
4. Adding a Middleware
5. Adding a Hub
6. Adding an MVC Controller
7. Adding a View
8. Output
Chapter 7: Pushing Your Code to GitHubChapter Goal: To provide summary of what was learned from all the chapters, source code and other resource references.
No of pages: 13
Sub - Topics:
1. Github Repository and Source Code
2. References
About the Author: Vincent works as a senior software engineer in a research and development company, focusing mainly on web and mobile technologies. He is a nine-time Microsoft MVP, three-time C# Corner MVP, CodeProject MVP, Microsoft Influencer, DZone MVB and a regular contributor at CodeProject, CsharpCorner, Microsoft TechNet Wiki, AspSnippets and Xamarin. He also contributes at the official Microsoft ASP.NET community site where he became one of the all-time top answerers with All-Star recognition level (the highest attainable level).
He authored a few e-books for C# Corner: GridView Control Pocket Guide, ASP.NET MVC 5: A Beginner's Guide and is now working on a new book entitled ASP.NET Core 2: A Beginner's Guide.
He runs a blog at http: //vmsdurano.com, created a few open-source projects that are hosted on Codeplex and GitHub. He also developed VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core and VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Net NuGet packages.
