🚀 Tech Skill Builder Membership – Level Up Your .NET Skills

Want to master .NET development without wasting time on fluff?
The Tech Skill Builder Membership gives you weekly hands-on coding tutorials designed to sharpen your skills and keep you ahead in the industry.

💡 What You’ll Get

✔ Fresh .NET code tutorials every week (sometimes twice a week)
✔ Step-by-step projects covering:

🔹 Reverse Proxy Development in .NET
🔹 Clean Architecture with CQRS & MediatR
🔹 Unit & Integration Testing Strategies
🔹 Advanced Logging & Monitoring
🔹 Real-world performance optimization techniques

✔ Practical examples you can plug into your own projects
✔ A growing library of .NET coding resources updated regularly

👨‍💻 Who Is This For?

Perfect for .NET developers, software engineers, and coding enthusiasts who want to learn by doing.

Whether you’re preparing for a job, improving your side projects, or aiming for senior-level skills, this membership gives you practical knowledge—not theory.

🔥 Why Join?

• Save hours of research with ready-to-use .NET examples
• Stay up-to-date with .NET 8+ and .NET 9 best practices
• Build clean, scalable, production-ready applications
• Grow your coding confidence with real projects, not just tutorials

📘 Current Tutorials Available

1- 🏗️ Clean Architecture With .NET 9 and CQRS
Step-by-step guide to building a Clean Architecture solution with CQRS in .NET 9.
You’ll learn how to:

• Structure Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and WebAPI
• Implement CQRS with MediatR
• Set up EF Core 9
• Build real handlers (CreateStudent, GetStudents)
• Keep projects testable, maintainable, and scalable

2- 📦 MediatR and FluentValidation Demo Project (.NET 9)
Enterprise-grade validation patterns for ASP.NET Core Web API.
It covers:

• CQRS with MediatR
• Centralized FluentValidation
• Pipeline behaviors (logging/validation)
• Exception handling with structured responses
• In-Memory EF Core for demo/testing
• Swagger/OpenAPI

3- 🧪 Architecture Tests for Clean Architecture
Enforce architectural boundaries with automated tests.
You’ll discover how to:

• Prevent architecture drift
• Enforce dependency rules (e.g., Domain ≠ Infrastructure)
• Use NetArchTest.Rules / ArchUnitNET
• Validate naming conventions & project structure
• Maintain living documentation

4- 🛠️ The Better Way to Configure Entity Framework Core
Cleaner, testable EF Core config via the Options Pattern + one extension method.
You’ll learn how to:

• Bind DatabaseOptions (conn string, timeouts, sensitive logging)
• Centralize setup via services.AddDatabase(...) in Infrastructure
• Configure AddDbContext with IOptions<DatabaseOptions>
• Auto-apply ApplyConfigurationsFromAssembly
• Keep Program.cs minimal and test-friendly

5- 🤖 The New Standard for AI in .NET: A Deep Dive into Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Hands-on Console App + Code)
From simple prompts to structured data and conversational agents—practical, production-ready patterns using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.
What you’ll build & learn:

• IChatClient abstraction: swap providers (GitHub Models/OpenAI/Azure/OpenAI-compatible) with DI-only changes
• Secure config with User Secrets (Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets)
• Streaming responses with await foreach for real-time UX
• Essential AI tasks:
  • Basic completion
  • Classification & triage
  • Summarization (TL;DR)
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Structured outputs: GetResponseAsync<T> to deserialize directly into typed C# models
• Mini chat app: context-aware conversation using List<ChatMessage> and streaming
  Includes:
• Full .NET 9 console project
• Clean, commented code: provider setup, streaming, examples (classification/summarization/sentiment/structured)
• Ready-to-run prompts and sample models (openai/gpt-4o-mini via GitHub Models endpoint)

6- 🎯 What Is an Entity? | Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture, .NET
A fast, practical primer on modeling Entities the DDD way—fitting neatly into Clean Architecture.
Core idea: An Entity is defined by identity, not by its current field values. Its state can change over time, but it’s the same conceptual thing because the ID stays the same.
Key takeaways:

• Identity-first equality: Compare entities by ID; don’t base equality on mutable properties.
• Behavior over data: Put domain logic on the entity to avoid an anemic model (rules live with the data).
• Encapsulation & invariants: Keep setters private/internal; expose methods that enforce valid state transitions.

7- 🧩 Domain Validation With .NET | Clean Architecture, DDD
Where domain validation truly belongs and how to implement it without clutter.
What it covers:

• Domain vs. application validation (invariants vs. input checks)
• Implementing invariants in Entities/Aggregates and Value Objects
• Two outcome styles: Exceptions vs. Result<T> (non-exceptional failures)

Core ideas:

• Keep aggregates always valid: enforce rules at creation and on every state change.
• Value Objects are the first line for format/consistency (e.g., Email, Money).
• Application layer handles superficial checks; domain layer enforces business rules.

Approaches:

• Exceptions: great for “must never happen” violations; simple but easy to overuse.
• Result<T>: explicit, testable flows without exceptions-as-control-flow; slightly more boilerplate.

Practical guidance:

• Use guard clauses, factories, and methods on entities/value objects—never expose raw setters.
• For cross-aggregate/external checks (e.g., uniqueness), call domain/application services via interfaces so the domain stays infrastructure-agnostic.
• Choose Exceptions for invariant breaches; choose Result<T> when failure is an expected business outcome you want to propagate and handle gracefully.

💲 Pricing

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