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Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

By : Peter Ritchie
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Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

By: Peter Ritchie

Overview of this book

When you are developing on the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio 2010 offers you a range of powerful tools and makes the whole process easier and faster. After learning it, if you are think that you can sit back and relax, you cannot be further away from truth. To beat the crowd, you need to be better than others, learn tips and tricks that other don't know yet. This book is a compilation of the best practices of programming with Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2010 best practices will take you through the practices that you need to master programming with .NET Framework. The book goes on to detail several practices involving many aspects of software development with Visual Studio. These practices include debugging and exception handling and design. It details building and maintaining a recommended practices library and the criteria by which to document recommended practices The book begins with practices on source code control (SCC). It includes different types of SCC and discusses how to choose them based on different scenarios. Advanced syntax in C# is then covered with practices covering generics, iterator methods, lambdas, and closures. The next set of practices focus on deployment as well as creating MSI deployments with Windows Installer XML (WiX)óincluding Windows applications and services. The book then takes you through practices for developing with WCF and Web Service. The software development lifecycle is completed with practices on testing like project structure, naming, and the different types of automated tests. Topics like test coverage, continuous testing and deployment, and mocking are included. Although this book uses Visual Studio as example, you can use these practices with any IDE.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Methodologies


Automated testing involves writing tests in code that are automatically executed. As we've seen, there are some things we can do to focus our testing efforts and make those tests more effective. Testing methodologies provide holistic methods towards testing which attempt to address a common goal or theme. Let's look at the two most common methodologies.

TDD

We've already talked a bit about test-driven design (TDD). Technically, TDD doesn't facilitate automated testing. Rather, it facilitates better design through a test-first mentality. But, it does help us improve code coverage from tests, write more testable code, and hopefully make better APIs and better designed software.

When nothing else is really known about lower-level details of a system, TDD helps us focus on some of the interface-specific details that could otherwise cause "analysis paralysis." Getting into too much detail when there are so many other great books on TDD is somewhat pointless. But I'll give a short...