Who this book is for

This book is for two distinct types of readers.

The first is junior and mid-level C# developers in the first few years of their careers. This book will teach you the programming techniques and mentalities needed to advance in your career. You’ll learn how to safely refactor your code and find new ways of improving the overall structure of your code.

The second type of reader is the software engineer or engineering manager dealing with a particularly troublesome codebase or a project or organization resistant to refactoring. This book will help you make the case for refactoring, ensure you can do it safely, and give you alternatives to all-or-nothing approaches of complete rewrites.

This book also features a number of libraries and language features you may not have encountered or thought about recently. I hope that this book gives you new perspectives, tools, and techniques that will aid you as you refactor your code and build a better codebase.