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

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

Introducing Aspire

What is .NET Aspire? From the announcement blog post (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-aspire-simplifying-cloud-native-development-with-dotnet-8/), “.NET Aspire is an opinionated stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET.”

It is worth noting each carefully chosen phrase in that description:

Opinionated stack: One of the trickier aspects of building modern distributed solutions is there is too much choice. For each feature of your solution, there are multiple components that you could pick from. For each of those components, there are multiple ways to configure them based on your needs. Aspire has an opinion about which components you should use and how you should configure them, which is explained in the Aspire components section later in the chapter. If you concur with those opinions, then Aspire is especially great, and if not, you can always override the...