C# Best Practices for Developers

Course details

Get into the habit of developing reliable, readable, and sustainable application code by following coding standards with C#. In this course, join instructor Reynald Adolphe as he shows how to go beyond the language syntax and master best practices that can help you produce high-quality C# code. Throughout the course, Reynald shares some of his favorite best practices, illustrating precisely when and where to use each one. Learn about right way to use constructors, manage objects, implement often ignored advantages of getters and setters. Plus, explore best practice resources, including those for essential design patterns.

Learning objectives
Naming and handling classes
Running a unit test
Using constructors
Naming and handling methods, fields, and properties
Using properties correctly
Managing objects efficiently
Common design patterns as best practices

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know before watching
Setting up the Development Environment

Best Practices - An Overview

Best practices defined
When to use it
Getting the team to follow

Naming and Handling Classes

Project setup overview
Set up the business layer
Running a unit test
Class naming conventions and standards
Field and property naming conventions
Using constructors
Unit testing constructors
Namespaces
Static classes
Unit testing static classes
Using a singleton

Naming and Handling Methods, Fields, and Properties

Method overloading
Unit testing without parameters
Unit testing with parameters
Method chaining
Constants vs. read-only fields
Using properties correctly
Using properties demo
Auto-implemented properties
Auto-implemented properties demo

Managing Objects Efficiently

Initializing objects
Related objects needed once
Related objects needed always
Related objects needed sometimes
Checking for null
Using statement for efficiency

More Best Practices Resources

Web and DB best practice resources
Common design patterns as best practice

Conclusion

Next steps