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

Source Code Management Using Git

This chapter is about source code management (SCM) using Git. SCM is also known as version control as part of a version control system (VCS). SCM is an important part of software development, especially for teams, but can also provide benefits for solo developers.

There are many graphical user interfaces for working with Git, and most code editors include integrations with Git. Since I want this chapter to work for all my readers, it will explain concepts and show examples using the Git CLI because that is consistent and works across all platforms.

Once you have learned how to control Git at the command prompt and understand its concepts, you can switch to using any GUI tool that you prefer. At the end of this chapter, I link to online-only material that show common integrations, for example, for Visual Studio. Since the GUIs change frequently, I will be able to keep them updated online.

This chapter covers the following topics:

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