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Improving your C# Skills

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens
Book Image

Improving your C# Skills

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens

Overview of this book

This Learning Path shows you how to create high performing applications and solve programming challenges using a wide range of C# features. You’ll begin by learning how to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs, highlight common performance pitfalls, and apply strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You'll also study the importance of micro-services architecture for building fast applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. Then, you'll study the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code, and working with different types of test double, such as spies, mocks, and fakes. In addition to describing programming trade-offs, this Learning Path will also help you build a useful toolkit of techniques, including value caching, statistical analysis, and geometric algorithms. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan • Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7 by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt • The Modern C# Challenge by Rod Stephens
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
8
What to Know Before Getting Started
17
Files and Directories
18
Advanced C# and .NET Features
Index

Solutions


 You can download the example solutions to see additional details and to experiment with the programs at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Improving-your-C-Sharp-Skills/tree/master/Chapter16

22. Random doubles

The following NextDouble extension method uses the Random class's existing NextDouble method to generate a double value within a range:

public static class RandomExtensions
{
    // A Random objects shared by all extensions.
    private static Random Rand = new Random();

    // Return a double between minValue and maxValue.
    public static double NextDouble(this Random rand,
        double minValue, double maxValue)
    {
        return minValue + Rand.NextDouble() * (maxValue - minValue);
    }
}

The RandomExtensions class creates a Random object at the class level. That object is static, so it is available to all extension methods defined in this class.

Note

If you create a new Random object without passing its constructor a seed value, the class uses the system's time to...