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Refactoring with C#

By : Matt Eland
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Book Image

Refactoring with C#

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By: Matt Eland

Overview of this book

Software projects start as brand-new greenfield projects, but invariably become muddied in technical debt far sooner than you’d expect. In Refactoring with C#, you'll explore what technical debt is and how it arises before walking through the process of safely refactoring C# code using modern tooling in Visual Studio and more recent C# language features using C# 12 and .NET 8. This book will guide you through the process of refactoring safely through advanced unit testing with XUnit and libraries like Moq, Snapper, and Scientist .NET. You'll explore maintainable code through SOLID principles and defensive coding techniques made possible in newer versions of C#. You'll also find out how to run code analysis and write custom Roslyn analyzers to detect and resolve issues unique to your code. The nature of coding is changing, and you'll explore how to use AI with the GitHub Copilot Chat to refactor, test, document, and generate code before ending with a discussion about communicating technical debt to leadership and getting organizational buy-in to refactor your code in enterprise organizations and in agile teams. By the end of this book, you'll understand the nature of refactoring and see how you can safely, effectively, and repeatably pay down the technical debt in your application while adding value to your business.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1: Refactoring with C# in Visual Studio
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Part 2: Refactoring Safely
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Part 3: Advanced Refactoring with AI and Code Analysis
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Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise

Refactoring to functions

In this section, we’ll explore some aspects of refactoring related to functional programming. Functional programming is an approach to programming that focuses on functions and their interactions instead of purely on objects and classes.

Functional programming has become more popular over the last decade and that popularity has influenced the C# language with the addition of new forms of syntax.

We’ll explore a few of the syntactical improvements related to functional programming and see how they can help make concise and flexible programs. While this is not a book about functional programming, we’ll still find ourselves exploring a few of these concepts in this section and Chapter 10, Defensive Coding Techniques.

Using expression-bodied members

To start dipping our toes into the waters of the more functional syntax, let’s take a look at the FindFlightById method in FlightTracker:

private Flight? FindFlightById(string...