Microsoft Azure Developer: Ensuring Configurability
Becoming a successful software developer requires more than just an understanding of language syntax and patterns. This course will teach you how, and when, to build configurability into your applications in order to make them maintainable.
What you'll learn
At the core of developing maintainable solutions is a thorough knowledge of application configuration. In this course, Microsoft Azure Developer: Ensuring Configurability, you’ll learn how to build and deploy configurable .NET Core applications on Microsoft Azure. First, you’ll learn about the .NET Core configuration API and its capabilities. Next, you’ll explore ASP.NET Core application configurability. Finally, you’ll discover how to refactor an existing application by replacing hard-coded values with configuration settings. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a strong understanding of application configuration that will help you as you move towards becoming an Azure Developer.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Demo: Creating an ASP.NET Core Application 4m
- Demo: Injecting Simple Configuration Settings 3m
- Demo: Environment-specific Configuration 3m
- Demo: Using Configuration Subsections 4m
- Demo: Using Strongly-typed Configuration 5m
- Demo: Injecting Configuration Settings into Views 2m
- Demo: Modifying Configuration with Code 2m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 2m
- Demo: Deploying to Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio 3m
- Demo: Creating a SQL Database in Microsoft Azure 5m
- Demo: Managing Database Connection Strings 4m
- Demo: Troubleshooting an Application in Microsoft Azure 4m
- Demo: Configuring Application Settings 3m
- Summary 1m
- Final Thoughts 1m
About the author
Matt Honeycutt is a software architect specializing in ASP.NET web applications, particularly ASP.NET MVC. He has over a decade of experience in building (and testing!) web applications. He’s an avid practitioner of Test-Driven Development, creating both the SpecsFor and SpecsFor.Mvc frameworks. He has served as the lead developer on numerous multi-million dollar software projects and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems. As life-long learner, Matt remains dedicated to expan... more