GitHub Actions DevOps Pipelines as code using C#

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Demonstrates using Cake (C#) to define GitHub Actions pipelines as code, installed via a dotnet tool manifest and run with dotnet cake, so pipelines run locally with full debugger and cut push/wait cycles by validating restore/build/test/pack/upload steps before commit. Shows a matrix on Windows/Ubuntu/macOS, uses strongly typed build settings for predictable artifact paths, publishes artifacts to Actions, and fixes a macOS path issue encountered during the first CI run.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:16What is GitHub Actions
3. 6:16Normal Pipeline
4. 6:54Sample Application
5. 7:21Installing Cake
6. 13:22Cake Tasks
7. 15:27Cake Build
8. 23:57Commit
9. 25:34GitHub Actions
10. 29:52Refactoring
11. 36:57Artifact names
12. 38:47If statement

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