Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years of experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught “train-the-trainer” classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark has spent most of his career training a wide variety of students, from 16-year-old apprentices to 70-year-old retirees, with the majority being professional developers. Mark holds a BSc in Computer Science.

• Table of ContentsIntroducing Tools and Skills for .NETMaking the Most of the Tools in Your Code EditorSource Code Management Using GitDebugging and Memory TroubleshootingAlerts, Metrics, and Logging for ObservabilityDocumenting Code, APIs, and ServicesObserving and Modifying Code Execution DynamicallyProtecting Data and Apps Using CryptographyBuilding a Custom LLM-Based Chat ServiceDependency Injection, Containers, and Service LifetimeUnit Testing and MockingIntegration and Security TestingBenchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress TestingFunctional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and ServicesContainerization Using DockerCloud-Native Development Using .NET AspireDesign Patterns and PrinciplesSoftware and Solution Architecture FoundationsYour Career, Teamwork, and InterviewsEpilogue

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years of experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught “train-the-trainer” classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark has spent most of his career training a wide variety of students, from 16-year-old apprentices to 70-year-old retirees, with the majority being professional developers. Mark holds a BSc in Computer Science.

• Table of ContentsIntroducing Tools and Skills for .NETMaking the Most of the Tools in Your Code EditorSource Code Management Using GitDebugging and Memory TroubleshootingAlerts, Metrics, and Logging for ObservabilityDocumenting Code, APIs, and ServicesObserving and Modifying Code Execution DynamicallyProtecting Data and Apps Using CryptographyBuilding a Custom LLM-Based Chat ServiceDependency Injection, Containers, and Service LifetimeUnit Testing and MockingIntegration and Security TestingBenchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress TestingFunctional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and ServicesContainerization Using DockerCloud-Native Development Using .NET AspireDesign Patterns and PrinciplesSoftware and Solution Architecture FoundationsYour Career, Teamwork, and InterviewsEpilogue

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years of experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught “train-the-trainer” classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark has spent most of his career training a wide variety of students, from 16-year-old apprentices to 70-year-old retirees, with the majority being professional developers. Mark holds a BSc in Computer Science.

• Table of ContentsIntroducing Tools and Skills for .NETMaking the Most of the Tools in Your Code EditorSource Code Management Using GitDebugging and Memory TroubleshootingAlerts, Metrics, and Logging for ObservabilityDocumenting Code, APIs, and ServicesObserving and Modifying Code Execution DynamicallyProtecting Data and Apps Using CryptographyBuilding a Custom LLM-Based Chat ServiceDependency Injection, Containers, and Service LifetimeUnit Testing and MockingIntegration and Security TestingBenchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress TestingFunctional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and ServicesContainerization Using DockerCloud-Native Development Using .NET AspireDesign Patterns and PrinciplesSoftware and Solution Architecture FoundationsYour Career, Teamwork, and InterviewsEpilogue