eBookManager

The eBook Manager application is a basic Windows application that manages your eBook collection by way of Virtual Storage Spaces. Your eBooks are still physically stored in the same location on your hard drive, but they are logically grouped and stored in one of several virtual Storage Spaces as created by yourself. This project is created to showcase some of the new features in C# 7.0. You will find a list below that shows you where to see the examples of each new feature as implemented in the eBookManager application.

New features in C# 7.0

Tuples

Example in GetFileProperties() in DocumentEngine.cs

Pattern matching

Example in PopulateStorageSpacesList() in ImportBooks.cs

Out variables

Example in ToInt() Extension Method in ExtensionMethods.cs Example in ToDecimal() Extension Method in ExtensionMethods.cs Example in ToDouble() Extension Method in ExtensionMethods.cs Example in btnSaveNewStorageSpace_Click in Extension Method Call StorageSpaceExists(newName, out int nextID) in ImportBooks.cs

Deconstruction and Local functions

Example in PopulateStorageSpacesList() in ImportBooks.cs

Improvements to literals

Ref returns and locals

Generalized async return types

Expression bodies for accessors, constructors and finalizers

Example in ImportBook.cs property AllowedExtensions

throw expressions

Example in btnSaveNewStorageSpace_Click in ImportBooks.cs Example in btnAddeBookToStorageSpace_Click in ImportBooks.cs