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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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Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635207
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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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

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In this chapter:

  • You were introduced to the tools and skills that you will learn about in this book
  • You set up your development environment
  • You learned where to get help and how to get the best help from AI tools like ChatGPT
  • You set up a sample database named Northwind for SQL Server, and some .NET projects to define an EF Core model with tests for use in later chapters

In the next chapter, you will learn how to make the most of the tools in your code editor or IDE.

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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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