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Installing Git and GitHub in Visual Studio — Complete Guide

Installing Git and GitHub in Visual Studio — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of Microservices with .NET on Toolliyo Academy.

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GitHub Actions

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Advanced · 3 — Production skills · ~10 min · Module 9: Git, GitHub and CI/CD

What is this?

GitHub Actions is a key part of ShopNest Cloud-Native — your .NET microservices learning project. In plain terms: it helps Notification Service work correctly in a distributed system where each app deploys and scales on its own.

Why should you care?

You care about this when more than one developer touches ShopNest and you need safe merges and automatic test-and-deploy pipelines.

See it live — copy this example

Create a Web API project (dotnet new webapi), paste the code, then run dotnet run.

git checkout -b feature/order-saga
git commit -m "feat(order): add PlaceOrder saga consumer"
git push -u origin feature/order-saga

Run Example »

This lesson uses terminal or setup steps. Run commands on your computer — the live editor appears on coding lessons.

What happened?

  • The example shows GitHub Actions wired into Notification Service.
  • Read each line, run it locally, then change one setting and observe what breaks or improves.
  • That is how teams learn in production too — small experiments, not big bang rewrites.

Try it yourself

  1. Open or create the ShopNest project area for Notification Service.
  2. Apply the GitHub Actions pattern from the lesson example.
  3. Run dotnet build && dotnet run (or docker compose up when the lesson uses containers).
  4. Change a string or number in the example and run again — predict the output first.
  5. Break the code on purpose (remove a semicolon), read the compiler error, then fix it.

Remember

GitHub Actions connects to Notification Service in ShopNest Cloud-Native. Practice by editing the example yourself — do not only read. Move on when you can explain this topic in your own words without looking.

Real-world: Zoho-style SaaS billing

Billing, tenant provisioning, and feature flags are separate services. A billing fix deploys without redeploying the entire admin UI backend.

Outcome: Multi-tenant isolation and faster team velocity on subscription changes.

Interview prep for this lesson

Practice these questions aloud after reading—each links to a full structured answer.

Senior PDF Detailed
Distributed Transactions: Using Two-Phase Commit (2PC) or Sagas to ensure?
Short answer: that a transaction either commits or rolls back across multiple services. Real-world example (ShopNest) After payment succeeds, ShopNest publishes OrderPaid . Inventory and Notification services react indep…
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Data Consistency: Since all services share the same database, it's easier to ensure?
Short answer: data consistency and avoid issues like eventual consistency. Real-world example (ShopNest) ShopNest splits Catalog, Cart, Order, and Payment into services so teams can deploy catalog changes without redeplo…
Mid PDF Detailed
Liveness Probe:?
Short answer: Used to determine if a service is alive and functioning. If the liveness probe fails, Kubernetes will restart the container. Example: A database connection check can be implemented as a liveness probe. Real…
Senior PDF Detailed
Eventual Consistency: Most microservices architectures lean toward eventual?
Short answer: consistency where services are allowed to be temporarily inconsistent, but will eventually converge to a consistent state through events. Event-driven architectures with tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ are com…
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External Configuration Management: Use tools like Consul, Spring Cloud?
Short answer: Config, or HashiCorp Vault to manage configuration in a central, environment-specific location. Real-world example (ShopNest) ShopNest splits Catalog, Cart, Order, and Payment into services so teams can dep…
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Microservices with .NET
Course syllabus

Microservices with .NET Tutorial

Module 1: Foundations and Fundamentals
Module 2: Building User Microservice
Module 3: ShopNest Services and Integration
Module 4: RabbitMQ and Messaging
Module 5: Saga and Distributed Transactions
Module 6: API Gateway
Module 7: gRPC, CQRS, and GraphQL
Module 8: Resiliency and Fault Tolerance
Module 9: DevOps and Cloud-Native
Module 10: Git and GitHub
Module 11: CI/CD Pipelines
Module 12: Observability and Testing
Module 13: Advanced Topics
Module 14: Real-World Enterprise Projects
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