Summary

This chapter brought to life an excellent example of a popular Visual Studio extension, CodeMaid. This tool emphasizes that your code should be as readable and maintainable as possible. Authors use things such as sections, chapters, and headings to organize writing to help the reader follow along. Similarly, developers should use clear and organized namespaces, variables, properties, and methods within class files.

You learned that the benefits of organized code include reductions of merge conflicts and code churn. Taken together, clean code has the main advantage of making it easier to read and modify during maintenance activities, which, over time, tends to outweigh time spent initially writing the code. And, of course, that not only makes it a more pleasant experience for developers that have to support the application, but can also save time and money.

We covered several of CodeMaid's capabilities and showed you how to configure options to control its behavior...