.NET Project Setup From Scratch Using These 6 Best Practices

Want to build a rock-solid .NET project that won't give you headaches later? This video shows you how to set up your project the right way from day one. We'll cover everything from basic setup to some really cool tools - like using .editorconfig to keep your code clean, managing all your packages in one place, and catching bugs early with code analysis. You'll also learn how to package your app with Docker, orchestrate it using Docker Compose or the shiny new .NET Aspire, and automate your builds with GitHub Actions. Perfect for anyone who wants to level up their .NET game and build projects like a pro.

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Chapters
0:00 Creating the project
1:07 Code style - .editorconfig
2:48 Build configuration
4:20 Central package management
7:04 Code quality - static code analysis
10:42 Containerization
12:25 Orchestration - Docker Compose
13:18 Orchestration - Aspire
15:02 CI/CD pipeline - GitHub Actions

[aathira]

One of my bookmark video❤
It would be interesting to see behind the scene fixes... may be on a separate video too so that the purpose of this video still be full filled and clean.

Thanks for this

[rajeewaperera]

Thank you Milan, learn something new.

[thefront]

Thanks for making videos that go way beyond the overly common "Hello World" app example!

[henriquemarques]

Great job! Thanks for making this valuable content.

[nove]

Great information being shared here, overlooked most times

[ryan-heath]

0 error(s), 0 warning(s) 👍
This is always the first thing I want to enforce.

But don't bother when you need to maintain older projects that didn't have this from the start ... 😅

[JeevanBhandari-nh]

This is so cool. Thanks Milan for sharing 😍

[xiaodongchen]

Thanks for your sharing!It’s very helpful

[dibley]

Some amazing tips in there. Thank you for sharing.

[scarzix]

Very useful and great overview! <3 Thumbs up!!!

[antonmartyniuk]

Great things to start a project please. I also add logging and open telemetry

[jesusdicent]

Very great, thanks for the suggestions.

[adaveshm]

Adding Directory.Build.props is giving circular dependency error. Any idea?

[pathummadhusanka]

I added the .editorconfig file you shared in the description, and these configuration settings are also applying to the Migration file. For example, I receive an error due to = true:error". Is there a way to exclude certain files from these settings?

[airton.castro]

Do you use a copilot or some AI to help you code?
If so, have you done any customization?
I would love to see a video showing the customizations

[theknittingclass]

I find it very useful. But I have a question, if I am working on a project having few microservices and class library all using .Net8 then should I be creating all under single solution? If yes, then how should I be managing GitHub repos as different team will work on different microservices. Thanks

[ShivamPatel-ldxr]

Does Aspire have support of container scaling?

[ONEON]

What would you use for approval workflow? Learning Elsa 3.0 is difficult since no doc

[ahmedsherifali]

Thanks For video but when add new project to solution the condition to make package global don't work with me can you help me with the solution

[jessekela]

Any tips on setting docker compose launch with debugging on VSCode?