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Refactoring with C#

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835089989
Pages 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Matt Eland Matt Eland
Profile icon Matt Eland

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Refactoring with C# in Visual Studio
2. Chapter 1: Technical Debt, Code Smells, and Refactoring 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Refactoring 4. Chapter 3: Refactoring Code Flow and Iteration 5. Chapter 4: Refactoring at the Method Level 6. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Refactoring 7. Part 2: Refactoring Safely
8. Chapter 6: Unit Testing 9. Chapter 7: Test-Driven Development 10. Chapter 8: Avoiding Code Anti-Patterns with SOLID 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Defensive Coding Techniques 13. Part 3: Advanced Refactoring with AI and Code Analysis
14. Chapter 11: AI-Assisted Refactoring with GitHub Copilot 15. Chapter 12: Code Analysis in Visual Studio 16. Chapter 13: Creating a Roslyn Analyzer 17. Chapter 14: Refactoring Code with Roslyn Analyzers 18. Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise
19. Chapter 15: Communicating Technical Debt 20. Chapter 16: Adopting Code Standards 21. Chapter 17: Agile Refactoring 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Roslyn Analyzers

Before we can go into what a Roslyn Analyzer is, let’s talk about Roslyn.

Roslyn is the codename for the reimagined .NET Compiler Platform that was released alongside Visual Studio 2015. Since “.NET Compiler Platform” is a lot to say, most people refer to this as the Roslyn compiler or simply Roslyn for short.

Before Roslyn, if a tool wanted to understand C#, VB, or F# source code, developers needed to write their own language parser for these code files. This involved a significant amount of time and complexity, and this effort needed to be repeated every time these programming languages changed. This led to tools being slower to support new language features, lost productivity, and bugs.

One of the explicit goals of the Rosyln compiler was to provide visibility into the structure of code in a standardized way. This way, plugins could work with the Roslyn APIs to get live information about code without having to write their...

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