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

Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring the topics covered in this chapter with deeper research.

Exercise 4.1 – Online-only material

Read about some of the recent improvements with the Visual Studio debugger: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/in-the-debuggers-spotlight-a-year-in-review/.

Review the complete official documentation for profiling tools and skills with Visual Studio at the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/.

A feature tour of Visual Studio profiling tools is available at the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/profiling-feature-tour.

Exercise 4.2 – Practice exercises

In Chapter 15, Containerization Using Docker, you will learn about containerization. You can learn how to debug containers at the following link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/debugging...