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Improving your C# Skills

You're reading from   Improving your C# Skills Solve modern challenges with functional programming and test-driven techniques of C#

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838558383
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Clayton Hunt Clayton Hunt
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John Callaway John Callaway
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. What's New in .NET Core 2 and C# 7? FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring Performance 3. Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming in .NET Core 4. Securing and Implementing Resilience in .NET Core Applications 5. Why TDD is Important 6. Setting Up the .NET Test Environment 7. Setting Up a JavaScript Environment 8. What to Know Before Getting Started 9. Tabula Rasa – Approaching an Application with TDD in Mind 10. Testing JavaScript Applications 11. Exploring Integrations 12. Changes in Requirements 13. The Legacy Problem 14. Unraveling a Mess 15. Geometry 16. Randomization 17. Files and Directories 18. Advanced C# and .NET Features 19. Cryptography 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Switching to xUnit


MSTest has long shipped with Visual Studio. There are a few other options when it comes to testing frameworks for C# and .NET. Many of these frameworks have feature parity and differ only slightly in their choices of attributes, assertions, and exception handling. Among the top contenders for testing frameworks is xUnit. Many developers actually prefer this to MSTest and would argue that it is more feature-rich and has stronger community support. Arguments aside, we'll be using xUnit for our C# and .NET tests from here on out.

Feel free to stick with MSTest if you prefer. Just know that you'll need to account for the semantic differences (such as TestMethod vs Fact) and slight differences in functionality.

Code katas

What is a code kata? Code katas are nothing more than repeatable exercises. Generally, these exercises are meant to take no more than 20 minutes to complete. Most code katas are directed at a specific classification of a problem to solve. We'll be utilizing the...

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