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

Implementing .NET Generic Host

.NET Generic Host, introduced in .NET Core 2.1 in 2018, is a framework for hosting services and applications. It provides a standardized way to configure and run any application. It manages application lifetime, configuration, logging, DI, and so on. It can host a wide variety of applications, from web applications using ASP.NET Core to background services and workers.

Key features of the .NET Generic Host

The most important features of the .NET Generic Host are shown in the following list:

DI support: The host sets up DI, making it easy to inject services throughout your application.
Logging: The host comes with a pre-configured logging infrastructure that supports multiple logging providers.
Configuration: It offers a unified API for application configuration, supporting various sources like JSON files, environment variables, and command-line arguments.
Lifecycle management: The host provides interfaces to manage...