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Tools and Skills for .NET 8

You're reading from   Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635207
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET FREE CHAPTER 2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor 3. Source Code Management Using Git 4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting 5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability 6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services 7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically 8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography 9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service 10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime 11. Unit Testing and Mocking 12. Integration and Security Testing 13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing 14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services 15. Containerization Using Docker 16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire 17. Design Patterns and Principles 18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations 19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews 20. Epilogue 21. Index

Documenting visually with Mermaid diagrams

There’s no better way to convey a concept than with a diagram, especially to non-techies like managers. Mastering the skill of diagramming will make you a more persuasive leader in meetings and accelerate your career because it will enhance your reputation with the people who sign the pay checks.

With the right tool, like Mermaid, you don’t need graphic design skills to produce attractive, useful diagrams to bring the team together to all understand a solution architecture or code design decision. Mermaid is a good choice for .NET developers because Microsoft source code management hosts like GitHub have built-in support for rendering Mermaid diagrams.

In any Markdown file (.md), just define a Markdown code block and indicate the code is mermaid, as shown in the following code:

```mermaid
```

Mermaid’s syntax is designed to be simple and intuitive, allowing developers to quickly create and incorporate...

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