Exercise 3: Instrumenting Code to Use Application Insights

In the following hands-on task, you will deploy an ASP.NET Core MVC website that is a small e-commerce application with order processing algorithms. From the website, you will be able to list, create, modify, and observe the details of ordered items. The web application uses Entity Framework connected to Azure SQL Database and Azure Blob Storage to demonstrate your ability to track dependency requests. When you complete the deployment, you will be able to observe performance per page, user requests, dependencies, SQL queries, and so on. To get started, please take the following steps to publish your web application as a ZIP archive. The code is also included at the following link: https://packt.link/d827T

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These commands use Blocated in the current folder. The Azure CLI can be downloaded from http://aka.ms/azcli. Visual Studio code and .NET 8 are required. If you do not install the ZIP console app, you can use the...