📚 Azure DevOps Blog Series for .NET Developers
Part 1: Introduction to DevOps for .NET Developers What is DevOps? Why DevOps is critical for .NET projects. Key benefits: faster delivery, improved quality, automation. Real-world analogy: from developer machine → Azure Cloud → end-user. Overview of Azure DevOps Services. Part 2: Getting Started with Azure DevOps Setting up an Azure DevOps organization. Creating projects and repositories. Git vs TFVC (why Git is preferred in modern .NET). Hands-on: Push a .NET 8 Web API to Azure Repos. Part 3: Source Control & Branching Strategies Git basics for .NET devs. Branching strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-based). Pull requests and code reviews in Azure DevOps. Hands-on: Setup branch policies for a .NET repo. Part 4: Build Automation with Azure Pipelines (CI for .NET) What is CI/CD? Creating your first build pipeline for a .NET 8 app. YAML vs Classic pipelines. Running unit tests (xUnit, NUnit). Publishing build artifacts (NuGet packages, DLLs). Part 5: Releas...