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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)

Code analysis

Visual Studio provides a code analysis toolset that helps developers improve code quality, find issues, and maintain coding standards.

Open the CH4 project. Then, from the Project menu, select the CH4 Properties menu item. This will bring up the Properties dialog box for the CH4 project. From the left-hand tabs, select the Code Analysis tab. You should see the following screen:

Figure 10.1: The Code Analysis page for the CH4 project

Figure 10.1: The Code Analysis page for the CH4 project

From this page, you can select the active rules that you want to use. Clicking on the Configure button brings up the ruleset editor dialog:

Figure 10.2: The Code Analysis page’s ruleset editor dialog

Figure 10.2: The Code Analysis page’s ruleset editor dialog

By default, we are using Microsoft Managed Recommended Rules, which can be found in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\Rule Sets\MinimumRecommendedRules.ruleset file. When a ruleset is opened, you can select and deselect...