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Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

By : Jason Alls
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Book Image

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)

Chapter 9

  1. An aspect is a modular unit of cross-cutting concerns that can be applied to multiple parts of a software system. Using PostSharp, an aspect is applied as an attribute to the location where the code is to be weaved.
  2. In C#, an attribute is a declarative tag or an annotation that provides additional information about various program elements such as classes, methods, properties, or parameters. Attributes can be used to add metadata, define behavior, or modify the way program elements are treated by the runtime environment. You place an attribute at the correct location surrounded by square brackets: [AnAttribute].
  3. Aspects are added to source code as attributes. This helps the AOP framework identify an attribute that is to be weaved at compile time.
  4. The AOP framework forms part of the build pipeline. When an aspect is identified via an attribute, it is weaved into the source code by the AOP framework.