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 Who This Book Is For Software developers working on .NET and .NET Core platform. Table of Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: .NET Platform Acronyms ECMA-335 and .NET ECMA-335 .NET Platform About the Common Type System Fundamental Types and Hardware Platform The Organization of Fundamental Data Types CTS for Fundamental Types Virtual Execution System .NET Module .NET Assemblies Static Assemblies Dynamic Assemblies Working with Assemblies and Modules Organization of Elements in a Module (Physical File) Using the ILDASM Tool Implementing the entrypoint Method Chapter 2: Custom .NET Data Type Management of Data Types Working with System.Object, the Root of .NET Reference Types System.ValueType, the Root of .NET Value Types Methods Working with System.Object.Equals() Operators == and != for Equality and Inequality Behaviors Working with System.Object.GetHashCode() Chapter 3: .NET Methods: Implementation Details Methods About the Use of Operators Operator Overloading: Programming Language Semantics and Syntaxes Working with System.Object.GetType() Constructors in a .NET Data Type Chapter 4: .NET Special Members: Constructors in a Managed Environment Acronyms Special Members About Constructors in a Managed Execution Environment Default Constructor Reflection APIs Rules, Requirements, and MSIL Metadata: MSIL Attributes in a Special Member MSIL “Hide by Signature” Keyword (hidebysig) MSIL “Special Name” Keyword (specialname) MSIL “Runtime Special Name” Keyword (rtspecialname) Summary Chapter 5: Finalizer Method: The .NET Special Member Special Members Special Member Destructor Special Member Finalizer Method (Destructor) System.Object.Finalize() Method Chapter 6: .NET Manifest and Versioning for Managed Libraries Assemblies, Modules, Manifest, Versioning Assembly Manifest Module Versioning Chapter 7: .NET Assemblies in a Managed Execution Environment Managed Libraries Data Types, Components, and Functionalities Native Code and Managed Code Index
