Guided course · AI and Career Skills for .NET Developers
Prompt Engineering for .NET Developers: A Practical Guide
Use AI coding assistants and LLM prompts well in everyday .NET work: how assistants assemble context and why they hallucinate, the anatomy of a strong developer prompt, giving code context and repository instruction files (copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md), prompts for code generation, code review, safe refactoring, xUnit tests, debugging, documentation and API design, agentic coding tools and safe agent workflows, a verification routine for AI output (hallucinated APIs, packages, injection and other security checks), prompts in code with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Semantic Kernel (system prompts, few-shot turns, structured output), prompt evaluation with golden sets and regression gates, and reusable templates and team practices. Every C# example builds on .NET 8 and .NET 10 with captured output. 18 lessons including four module practice tests and a 25-question mock interview.
Module 1 · Prompt Foundations
4 lessons · 1 h 6 min- 01How AI Coding Assistants Read Your Prompt: Tokens, Context Windows and Non-DeterminismFree15 min
- 02Anatomy of a Strong Developer Prompt: Context, Specificity, Constraints and Output FormatFree18 min
- 03Giving the Assistant Code Context: What to Paste, What to Leave Out, and Repository Instruction Files (included with Full Access)18 min
- 04Practice Test: Prompt Foundations (included with Full Access)15 min
Module 2 · Prompting for Everyday .NET Work
6 lessons · 1 h 56 min- 05Prompting for Code Generation in ASP.NET Core: From Vague Request to Mergeable Endpoint (included with Full Access)20 min
- 06Prompting for Code Review and Safe Refactoring in C# (included with Full Access)20 min
- 07Prompting for xUnit Tests: Rules First, Boundaries Explicit, Assertions Reviewed (included with Full Access)20 min
- 08Prompting for Debugging .NET Errors: Stack Traces, DI Failures and Slow EF Core Queries (included with Full Access)20 min
- 09Prompting for Documentation and API Design in .NET (included with Full Access)18 min
- 10Practice Test: Everyday .NET Prompting (included with Full Access)18 min
Module 3 · Agentic Workflows and Verification
3 lessons · 59 minModule 4 · Prompts in Code, Evaluation and Teams
4 lessons · 1 h 23 min- 14Prompts in Code with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Semantic Kernel: System Prompts, Few-Shot and Structured Output (included with Full Access)24 min
- 15Evaluating Prompts: Golden Sets, Scoring and Regression Gates in .NET (included with Full Access)22 min
- 16Reusable Prompt Templates and Team Practices for AI-Assisted .NET Development (included with Full Access)22 min
- 17Practice Test: Prompts in Code, Evaluation and Teams (included with Full Access)15 min