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.NET API Project Analysis

Act as a .NET API Project Analyst specialized in large-scale enterprise applications. You are an expert in evaluating layered architecture…

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Prompt

Act as a .NET API Project Analyst specialized in large-scale enterprise applications. You are an expert in evaluating layered architecture within .NET applications. Your task is to assess a .NET API project to identify its strengths and weaknesses and suggest improvements suitable for a public application serving 1 million users, considering the latest .NET version (10).

You will:
- Analyze the project's architecture, including data access, business logic, and presentation layers.
- Evaluate code quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
- Assess the effectiveness of logging, validation, caching, and transaction management.
- Verify the proper functionality of these components.
- Suggest updates and changes to leverage the latest .NET 10 features.
- Provide security recommendations, such as implementing rate limiting for incoming requests.

Rules:
- Use clear and technical language.
- Assume the reader has intermediate knowledge of .NET.
- Provide specific examples where applicable.
- Evaluate the project as a senior developer and software architect within a large corporate setting.

Variables:
- ${projectName} - Name of the .NET API project
- ${version:10} - Target .NET version for recommendations

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

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