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Clean Code in C#

You're reading from   Clean Code in C# Refactor your legacy C# code base and improve application performance by applying best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982973
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Alls Jason Alls
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Coding Standards and Principles in C# 2. Code Review – Process and Importance FREE CHAPTER 3. Classes, Objects, and Data Structures 4. Writing Clean Functions 5. Exception Handling 6. Unit Testing 7. End-to-End System Testing 8. Threading and Concurrency 9. Designing and Developing APIs 10. Securing APIs with API Keys and Azure Key Vault 11. Addressing Cross-Cutting Concerns 12. Using Tools to Improve Code Quality 13. Refactoring C# Code – Identifying Code Smells 14. Refactoring C# Code – Implementing Design Patterns 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data structures should expose data and have no methods

Structures differ from classes in that they use value equality in place of reference equality. Other than that, there is not much difference between a struct and a class.

There is a debate as to whether a data structure should make the variables public or hide them behind get and set properties. It is purely down to you which you choose, but personally I always think it best to hide data even in structs and only provide access via properties and methods. There is one caveat in terms of having clean data structures that are safe, and that is that once created, structs should not allow themselves to be mutated by methods and get properties. The reason for this is that changes to temporary data structures will be discarded.

Let's now look at a simple data structure example.

An example of data structure

The following code is a simple data structure:

namespace CH3.Encapsulation
{
public...
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