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 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET

2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER

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

Working on a development team

Some of the readers of my .NET books are amateurs rather than professionals, meaning they program for fun rather than being paid to do so. They want to learn .NET for a personal challenge or to create software only for their own use.

But most of my readers are either professional .NET developers or aspire to be eventually. Although some professional .NET developers work on their own, most work on a development team with other developers and related roles.

Being a software engineer

As a .NET software engineer, your daily life can be quite varied, depending on the type of projects you’re working on and the organization that you work for. But there are common tasks that you will need to be good at, as shown in the following list:

Coding and development: Of course, the primary task is writing, debugging, and maintaining code using C# and .NET. This involves developing websites, apps, services, and APIs, fixing bugs, updating...