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

Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring the topics covered in this chapter with deeper research.

Exercise 13.1 – Online-only material

You can read the official documentation for BenchmarkDotNet at the following link: https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/overview.html.

In particular, you should review the good practice section at the following link: https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/guides/good-practices.html.

This fascinating website allows developers to submit their benchmarks and comment on others: https://dotnetbenchmarks.com.

Benchmarking mistakes

One of my favorite .NET influencers is Nick Cosentino aka Dev Leader. Nick has a weekly newsletter (sign up at https://subscribe.devleader.ca), courses (https://devleader.ca/courses), and GitHub repositories (https://github.com/ncosentino/).

Recently, he discovered that he had made a mistake in one of...