Tools and Skills for .NET 8: Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions Tools and Skills for .NET 8: Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions Paperback Kindle

Develop your testing skills​

Ensure your apps are robust, reliable, and ready for production with four chapters dedicated to testing:​

• Unit testing and mocking​
• Integration and security testing​
• Benchmarking performance, load and stress testing​
• Functional and end-to-end testing of websites and services​

Create your own LLM-based chat service​

Integrating an LLM into a .NET project can significantly enhance its capabilities. ​

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Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to build an LLM-based chat service that will fine-tune a standard model with custom information.​

Explore .NET Aspire​

Understand cloud-native development with .NET Aspire, which improves the local development experience when building distributed cloud-native solutions.​

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You’ll explore how Aspire works and learn how to use Aspire for new and existing solutions. ​

Mark J. Price’s .NET trilogy

• C# language, including new C# 12 features, object-oriented programming, debugging, and unit testing
• .NET libraries, including numbers, text, regular expressions, collections, file I/O, and data with EF Core and SQLite
• Websites and web services with ASP.NET Core and Blazor

• More libraries: Internationalization, multitasking, and third-party packages
• More data: SQL Server and Cosmos DB
• More services: Minimal APIs, caching, queuing, GraphQL, gRPC, SignalR, and Azure Functions
• More user interfaces: ASP.NET Core MVC, Blazor, and .NET MAUI

• Tools: IDEs, debugging, memory analysis, and Al assistants
• Tests: Unit, integration, performance, security, and web, including DI and IoC
• Develop: Docker and .NET Aspire
• Design: Patterns, principles, software and solution architecture
• Career: Teamwork and interviews