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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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Jason Alls Jason Alls
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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

AOP with PostSharp

AOP can be used with OOP. An aspect is an attribute applied to classes, methods, parameters, and properties that, at compile-time, weaves code into the class, method, parameter, or property to which it is applied. This approach allows the cross-cutting concerns of a program to be moved from the business source code to a class library. The concerns are added where needed as attributes. The compiler then weaves the required code in at runtime. This keeps your business code small and readable. In this chapter, we will be using PostSharp. You can download it from https://www.postsharp.net/download.

So, how does AOP work with PostSharp?

You add the PostSharp package to your project. Then, you annotate your code with attributes. The C# compiler builds your code into binary, and then PostSharp analyzes the binary and injects the implementation of the aspects. Although the binaries are modified with injected code at compile-time, your project's...

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