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

Deeper into Aspire

There are a lot of parts to Aspire. Let’s dive in and see what role all the parts of Aspire play.

Developer dashboard for monitoring

As you have seen, starting an Aspire project brings you to the developer dashboard. This is an essential tool for debugging distributed applications because it gives you a unified view of your services alongside their logs, metrics, and traces.

You can use it to see logs and traces across all projects – for example, a distributed trace showing a request to the weather page. Traces are very helpful in diagnosing problems in distributed applications.

The developer dashboard uses all the same open standards you would use in production when you configure your production telemetry systems like Grafana and Prometheus.

The Aspire developer dashboard is visible while the AppHost project is running and will launch automatically when you start the project. The left navigation provides links to the different...