ASP.NET 8 Best Practices

Table of Contents

Preface

1

Taking Control with Source Control

Technical requirements

Branching Strategies

GitFlow

Hotfix branches

GitHub Flow

GitLab Flow

Creating short-lived branches

Understanding Common Practices

Rebase when Private, Merge when Public

Always “Get Latest” Before Committing

Always Build and Test Before Committing

Avoid Committing Binaries

Use tags for versioning

Summary

2

CI/CD – Building Quality Software Automatically

Technical requirements

What is CI/CD?

Preparing your Code

Building Flawlessly

Avoiding Relative Path Names with File-based Operations

Confirming that your Unit Tests are Unit Tests

Creating Environment Settings

Understanding the Pipeline

Pulling Code

Building the application

Running Unit Tests/Code Analysis