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

Tools in Visual Studio Code

First, you should become familiar with Code’s keyboard shortcuts. There are convenient single-page PDF files that you could print out on these keyboard shortcuts, one for each of the common operating systems, Windows, macOS, and Linux, and they are found at the following link: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings#_keyboard-shortcuts-reference.

When you have multiple files (tabs) open simultaneously, you can use Alt + Left Arrow and Alt + Right Arrow to navigate between them. You can also use Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab (reverse order).

Refactoring features

Many of Code’s refactoring features are activated by pressing Ctrl + Shift + R.

Code has a subset of refactoring commands, some of which are shown in the following list:

Rename symbol (F2): Renaming is a common operation related to refactoring source code, and all instances of the symbol across all files will be renamed.
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