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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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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about organizing our namespaces in folders and packages, and how good organization can help to prevent namespace classes. We then moved on to classes and responsibility and looked at why classes should only have one responsibility. We also looked at cohesion and coupling and why it is important to have high cohesion and low coupling.

Good documentation requires public members to be correctly commented on in documentation tools, and we saw how to do this using XML comments. The importance of why you should design for change was also discussed with basic examples of DI and IoC.

The Law of Demeter showed you how to not to talk to strangers, but only immediate friends, and how to avoid chaining. And finally, we looked at objects and data structures and what they should hide and what they should make public.

In the next chapter, we will briefly cover functional programming in C# and how to write clean methods that are small...

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