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

Testing services using dev tunnels

Dev tunnels are a technology concept that’s gained traction among web service developers. Dev tunnels create a secure, public URL that maps to a local server on your machine. This means you can share your local development environment with anyone in the world, without deploying the web service to a public server.

Imagine you’re working on a web application on your laptop. Normally, the app would only be accessible to you, since it’s running on your local server as localhost. If you wanted someone else to check it out, you’d have to deploy it to a public server, which can be a hassle, especially for quick feedback loops.

Dev tunnels work by establishing a secure connection between your local server and a service that creates a publicly accessible URL. This URL points directly back to your local server. When someone accesses this URL, the dev tunnel service routes that traffic to your machine, letting others interact...