DevOps Classroom notes 16/Sep/2025

CI Pipeline for dotnet

• Dotnet has two frameworks
  • dotnet framework: Runs only on windows
  • dotnet core framework: Runs on any platform
• Dotnet while building the code has two configurations
  • Debug: These are generally for developers where they can debug the code.
  • Release: All of building generally from CI are going to be release builds
• dotnet projects have two files of intrest
  • *.sln
  • *.csproj
• Using dotnet core we can build a sln or csproj
• dotnet uses nuget packages to get dependencies.
• Refer Here for the dotnet project which we will be building
• to build dotnet core we need dotnet sdk and run the dotnet application we need dotnet runtime.
• The above project requires dotnet core 9 and aspdotnet core
• Installing dotnet 9.0 on ubuntu 24 Refer Here

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dotnet/backports
sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-9.0
dotnet --list-runtimes

• Dotnet builds create we get a folder with dll’s , exe’s and additional files such as json or xml files & generally we zip and share.
• Dotnet build commands

dotnet restore <path to sln or csproj>
dotnet build --configuration=Release <path to sln or csproj> --no-restore
dotnet test <path to test sln or csproj>
dotnet publish --configuration=Release <path to sln or csproj> --output <folder where you want the package>

• dotnet build
• dotnet test
• Make changes in this workflow Refer Here to upload test results and zip and publish, As of now our package is present in published folder
• Exercise:
  • Upload test results dotnet test --logger:"trx;LogFilePrefix=testResults" src/Tests/Nop.Tests/Nop.Tests.csproj in
    • trx format
    • html format
    • junit format
  • Zip (published) and upload the artifact, Artifact name should be <repo-name>-<BuildNumber>.zip