READING_MATERIAL.md

Reading Material for Session 04

• For preparation: install the Azure CLI client
• Read chapters three, four, and five from Andrew Lock ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition

HTTP Messages

• Description of HTTP Messages

C♯

• Lambda expressions and anonymous functions
• Intro to C♯'s await operator
• Introduction to asynchronous programming with async and await in C♯

(ASP).NET Core

• Minimal Web APIs
• Tutorial: Make HTTP requests in a .NET console app using C♯
• Make HTTP requests with the HttpClient class
• Official documentation of HttpClient Class
• ASP.NET Core Middleware
• How to serialize and deserialize (marshal and unmarshal) JSON in .NET

Patterns

• Builder pattern introduction
• A builder pattern example in Java

UML Diagram Notation

• UML Sequence Diagrams
• UML Component Diagrams
• UML Deployment Diagrams

GitHub Actions for Deployment to Azure App Services

In case you want to read more detailed documentation on how to manually configure and setup a GitHub Actions workflow for deployment to Azure App Service, read the following official documentation documents from Microsoft and GitHub:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/deploy-github-actions
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/devops-for-aspnet-developers/actions-deploy
• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/deploying-to-your-cloud-provider/deploying-to-azure/deploying-net-to-azure-app-service