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

Documenting public APIs in class libraries

Documenting your source code potentially includes all code that you write, including private and internal types that are only used within your own projects. But you should pay special attention to code that forms a public API – any types that could be used outside your projects, perhaps even within your organization by other developers or teams, as well as outside your organization if you publicly publish NuGet packages.

The importance of API documentation cannot be overstated, as it serves as the bridge between the capabilities of your software and its users, whether they are internal developers within the same organization, partners, or third-party developers. Here are some reasons why you should invest time and resources into documenting your APIs:

Enhances the developer experience: Comprehensive, clear, and easy-to-navigate API documentation makes it easier for developers to find the information they need. Good documentation...