You're reading from Enterprise Application Development with C# 9 and .NET 5 Enhance your C# and .NET skills by mastering the process of developing professional-grade web applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209442

Length 610 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (5):

Ravindra Akella

Suneel Kumar Kunani

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu

Arun Kumar Tamirisa

Rishabh Verma

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Architecting an Enterprise Application and its Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Designing and Architecting the Enterprise Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing .NET 5 Core and Standard

4. Chapter 3: Introducing C# 9

5. Section 2: Cross-Cutting Concerns

6. Chapter 4: Threading and Asynchronous Operations

7. Chapter 5: Dependency Injection in .NET

8. Chapter 6: Configuration in .NET Core

9. Chapter 7: Logging in .NET 5

10. Chapter 8: Understanding Caching

11. Section 3: Developing Your Enterprise Application

12. Chapter 9: Working with Data in .NET 5

13. Chapter 10: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

14. Chapter 11: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web Application

15. Section 4: Security

16. Chapter 12: Understanding Authentication

17. Chapter 13: Understanding Authorization

18. Section 5: Health Checks, Unit Testing, Deployment, and Diagnostics

19. Chapter 14: Health and Diagnostics

20. Chapter 15: Testing

21. Chapter 16: Deploying the Applications in Azure

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the CI pipeline

CI is a practice in which you automate the building and testing of your code. In Azure DevOps, you can create pipelines and configure them to trigger automatically when code is merged to your target (master/main) branch, run on a schedule, or both. You may choose to create a pipeline using YAML files or a UI-based classic editor.

The following figure illustrates the typical flow of code from a developer's machine to the cloud:

Figure 16.6 – Typical flow of code

From the preceding screenshot, we see the following:

The developer uses development tools such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio for Mac to develop code.
Code changes are moved to the repository.
The CI pipeline is triggered, validates the build, runs tests, and publishes artifacts. The CD pipeline is triggered, and it deploys code to target systems.
The developer uses Application Insights to continuously monitor and...