Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Refactoring with C#

You're reading from   Refactoring with C# Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781835089989
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Matt Eland Matt Eland
Author Profile Icon Matt Eland
Matt Eland
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Refactoring with C# in Visual Studio FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Technical Debt, Code Smells, and Refactoring 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Refactoring 4. Chapter 3: Refactoring Code Flow and Iteration 5. Chapter 4: Refactoring at the Method Level 6. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Refactoring 7. Part 2: Refactoring Safely
8. Chapter 6: Unit Testing 9. Chapter 7: Test-Driven Development 10. Chapter 8: Avoiding Code Anti-Patterns with SOLID 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Defensive Coding Techniques 13. Part 3: Advanced Refactoring with AI and Code Analysis
14. Chapter 11: AI-Assisted Refactoring with GitHub Copilot 15. Chapter 12: Code Analysis in Visual Studio 16. Chapter 13: Creating a Roslyn Analyzer 17. Chapter 14: Refactoring Code with Roslyn Analyzers 18. Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise
19. Chapter 15: Communicating Technical Debt 20. Chapter 16: Adopting Code Standards 21. Chapter 17: Agile Refactoring 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Instantiating objects

Now that we’ve sufficiently improved our CanPassengerBoard method, let’s look at how we can create objects and see a few simple improvements you can make that will simplify object instantiation in your code.

Terminology notes

New developers are often tripped up by a handful of phrases that are commonly used by developers. For example, in this section, we will talk about instantiating objects. This is a common way of phrasing this for developers, but all it means is the process of creating a specific instance of a class using the new keyword. When you see the term instantiating, you can think of it simply as creating a specific instance of something.

This section’s code could come from anywhere, but we’ll focus on code found in a pair of methods in the PassengerTests.cs file in the test project that accompanies this chapter.

Replacing var with explicit Types

The first line of code I want to focus on comes from one of our...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime