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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
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Author (1):
Matt Eland Matt Eland
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Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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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

Reviewing and testing our refactored code

While we didn’t modify a lot of code in this chapter, the code we did change shrunk in size, thus becoming easier to read, understand, and modify in the process.

This is why we refactor. Refactoring should actively improve the maintainability of our applications and pay down strategic pieces of technical debt that threaten to introduce bugs and delays in the future.

Refactored code

The final refactored code from this chapter is available in the https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Refactoring-with-Csharp repository inside the Chapter03/Ch3RefactoredCode folder.

Since the art of refactoring involves changing the form of code without changing its functionality, we must test the application before moving on.

We’ll talk more about manual and automated tests in Chapter 6, but for now, run the tests by selecting the Test menu at the top of Visual Studio and then clicking Run All Tests.

This will show Test Explorer and...

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Profile icon Matt Eland
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Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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