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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

Business rule exceptions

Technical exceptions are exceptions that are thrown by a computer program as a result of programmer mistakes and/or environmental issues such as there not being enough disk space.

But business rule exceptions are different. Business rule exceptions imply that such behavior is expected and is used to control program flow, when in fact, exceptions should be an exception to the normal flow of the program and not the expected output of a method.

For example, picture a person at an ATM drawing out £100 from their account that has £0 in it and does not have the ability to go overdrawn. The ATM accepts the user request to draw £100 out, and so it issues the Withdraw(100); command. The Withdraw method checks the balance, discovers that the account has insufficient funds, and so throws InsufficientFundsException().

You may think that having such exceptions is a good idea as they are explicit and help identify issues so that...

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