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Tools and Skills for .NET 8

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 

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Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635207
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Tools in Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio contains many useful built-in tools including ones to implement the concepts you learned about earlier in this chapter.

Visual Studio vNext

At the time of writing, Visual Studio is version 17.10 and branded as Visual Studio 2022. I expect the next major version of Visual Studio to be version 18.0 and be branded as Visual Studio 2025. It is likely to be released in November 2024, after this book is published. Visual Studio 2025 will have mostly the same features as the 2022 edition although the user interface might move things around a bit. By default, all links in this book for Visual Studio will go to the current version, so to the 2022 version until the 2025 version is released. To force a link to go to the older version, append ?view=vs-2022 to the end of the link.

Refactoring features

Visual Studio has dozens of refactoring features, aka refactorings, to modify code to make it easier to maintain, understand...

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