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Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

By : Jason Alls
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Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Jason Alls

Overview of this book

Traditionally associated with Windows desktop applications and game development, C# has expanded into web, cloud, and mobile development. However, despite its extensive coding features, professionals often encounter issues with efficiency, scalability, and maintainability due to poor code. Clean Code in C# guides you in identifying and resolving these problems using coding best practices. This book starts by comparing good and bad code to emphasize the importance of coding standards, principles, and methodologies. It then covers code reviews, unit testing, and test-driven development, and addresses cross-cutting concerns. As you advance through the chapters, you’ll discover programming best practices for objects, data structures, exception handling, and other aspects of writing C# computer programs. You’ll also explore API design and code quality enhancement tools, while studying examples of poor coding practices to understand what to avoid. By the end of this clean code book, you’ll have the developed the skills needed to apply industry-approved coding practices to write clean, readable, extendable, and maintainable C# code.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Using Tools to Improve Code Quality

As a programmer, enhancing code quality is one of your chief concerns. Improving the quality of your code demands the utilization of various tools. Tools designed to improve your code and speed up development include code metrics, quick actions, the JetBrains dotTrace profiler, JetBrains ReSharper, and Telerik JustDecompile.

This is what we’ll be doing in this chapter. To do so, we will cover the following topics:

  • Defining good-quality code
  • Performing code cleanup and calculating code metrics
  • Performing code analysis
  • Using quick actions
  • Using the JetBrains dotTrace profiler
  • Using JetBrains ReSharper
  • Using Telerik JustDecompile

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Use code metrics to measure software complexity and maintainability
  • Use quick actions to make changes using a single command
  • Profile your code and analyze bottlenecks with JetBrains dotTrace
  • ...