You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Raffaele Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

Prakash Tripathi

Marius Bancila

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

18. Assessments

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What are Microsoft tools for unit testing?

If you are working with Visual Studio, several tools help you to write unit tests for your C# code. These tools include the following:

Test Explorer: This is a component of the IDE that allows you to view the unit tests, run them, and see their results. The Test Explorer does not work solely with MSTest (Microsoft's testing unit framework). It has an extensible API that allows developing adapters for third-party frameworks. Some of the frameworks that provide adapters for Test Explorer are NUnit and xUnit.
Microsoft unit test framework for managed code or MSTest: This is installed with Visual Studio but is also available as a NuGet package. There is also a unit testing framework for native code with similar functionalities.
Code coverage tools: They allow you to determine the amount of code that unit tests are covering.
Microsoft Fakes isolation framework: This allows you to create substitutes for classes and methods...