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

Introducing Git

Git is the most widely used DVCS that plays a key role in modern software development. It was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005. Git is known for its efficiency, speed, and robust capabilities.

But Git is also known for being complex. It has memes like: git clone, which leads to straightforward development, and git fork, which leads to a complex maze, implying that forking repositories can be confusing. Two comics from the ever-popular xkcd are shown in Figure 3.1:

Figure 3.1: xkcd comics about Git

Git comic link: https://xkcd.com/1597/

Git Commit comic link: https://xkcd.com/1296/

The point is that you do not need to learn much about Git to be way ahead of most other developers. They tend to memorize a few commands and use them without deep understanding.