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

Introducing common tools and features

Common tools and features in all code editors and IDEs include the following:

Refactoring features
Code snippets
Editor configuration
AI companions

Let’s describe each of these tools and features in more detail so that you understand the concepts, and then, in later sections, you can see how specific code editors implement those features.

Refactoring features

Refactoring is the process of modifying the internal structure of existing computer code without changing its external behavior. Most code editors and IDEs expose their refactoring features via their Edit menu and context (right-click) menus. But why would you want to spend effort rewriting code if there is no external effect?

The expected benefits are improved code readability and reduced complexity. In other words, you are investing in the future. Whoever must maintain the code should be able to do so with reduced effort and the likelihood...