Cake + .NET Core = Write Once, Build Anywhere

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Demonstrates a 76-line C# Cake build script that runs cross-platform: dotnet core restore then dotnet core build, runs 25 tests (all pass), reads version via XPath, runs dotnet core publish into a publish folder, zips the output and uploads it to Azure using curl against the zip deploy endpoint (with --fail) with credentials read from environment variables. The same script runs locally on macOS, on a Linux CI agent (TeamCity) and successfully deploys the ASP.NET Core app to Azure.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:30Cake
3. 7:05Crossplatform
4. 7:55Demo
5. 11:45VS Code
6. 27:58Compile
7. 28:28Package
8. 40:28Publish Compilation
9. 41:43Deploy
10. 46:18Upload
11. 48:23URI Object
12. 49:03POST Object
13. 53:13Invocation
14. 53:33Console
15. 54:33Testing

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