You're reading from Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET

2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER

3. Source Code Management Using Git

4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting

5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability

6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services

7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography

9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service

10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime

11. Unit Testing and Mocking

12. Integration and Security Testing

13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing

14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services

15. Containerization Using Docker

16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire

17. Design Patterns and Principles

18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations

19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews

20. Epilogue

21. Index

Design principles

Like all the design patterns and principles in this chapter, the design principles we will review next are guidelines to help you write better, more maintainable, and more efficient code.

The common principles we will review in this section are shown in the following list:

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
You Ain’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI)
Law of Demeter (LoD) or the principle of least knowledge
Composition over Inheritance
Principle of least astonishment

DRY

The Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle is a fundamental concept in software development that emphasizes the importance of avoiding duplication in code. This principle encourages reducing the repetition of software patterns by abstracting out common functionality into a single place, thus enhancing the maintainability, readability, and scalability of code.

Here are some key takeaways about DRY:

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