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C# and the .NET framework are prized for their power, flexibility, and ease of scaling. Line-of-business applications, web systems running ASP.NET, and backend servers powering enterprise data centers all rely on C#. Growing into a C# pro requires practice in real-world systems, where you learn to refactor messy code and integrate new features into existing designs. Code Like a Pro in C# lays out a path to C# mastery, tackling common challenges such as clean coding, idiomatic C#, and .NET Core that can stump aspiring C# software engineers.About the book
Code like a Pro in C# builds on your existing programming skills to help you seamlessly upskill your coding practice or transition to C# from Java or another OO language. You’ll learn to write the kind of idiomatic C# code that’s essential for enterprise development, honing your mastery with guided coding katas. This book discusses essential backend skills and puts them into practice with a common career challenge: refactoring a legacy codebase to be secure, clean, and readable. By the time you’re done, you’ll have a professional-level understanding of C# and be ready to start specializing with advanced-level resources.
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Part 1: Using C# and .NET
1 Introducing C# and .NET
1.1 Why work in C#?
1.1.1 Reason 1: C# is scalable and economical
1.1.2 Reason 2: C# can improve code stability
1.1.3 Reason 3: C# is developer-friendly and easy to use
1.2 Why not work in C#?
1.2.1 Operating system development in C#
1.2.2 Real-time operating system embedded development in C#
1.2.3 Numerical computing and C#
1.3 Switching to C#
1.4 The importance of “clean code”
1.5 What you will learn in this book
1.6 What you will not learn in this book
1.7 How this book is structured
1.8 Summary
2 Tour de C# and .NET
2.1 The .NET Framework compared to other platforms
2.1.1 The .NET Framework compared to other platforms: tuples
2.1.2 The .NET Framework compared to other platforms: events
2.1.3 The .NET Framework compared to other platforms: SQL
2.1.4 The .NET Framework compared to other platforms: CSV parser
2.1.5 Exercises
2.2 What is .NET Core?
2.2.1 Exercises
2.3 What is .NET 5?
2.4 How CLI-compliant languages are compiled
2.4.1 Step 1: C# code (high-level)
2.4.2 Step 2: Common Intermediate Language (assembly level)
2.4.3 Step 3: Native code (Processor Level)
2.4.4 Exercises
2.5 Summary
Part 2: Inheriting Code
3 Requirements, models, and views
3.1 Introducing “Flying Dutchman Airlines”
3.2 Pieces of the puzzle
3.2.1 The GET /flight endpoint: retrieving information on all flights
3.2.2 GET /flight/{flightNumber}
3.2.3 The POST /booking/{flightNumber} endpoint: Booking a flight
3.2.4 Exercises
3.3 The existing code
3.3.1 The database schema and its tables
3.3.2 The existing codebase: web service configurations files
3.3.3 Models and views
3.4 Summary
4 Examining the controller class
4.1 The FlightController: GET /flight endpoint
4.1.1 The GET /flight endpoint and what it does
4.1.2 Method Signature: the ResponseType and Typeof story
4.1.3 Collecting flight information with collections
4.1.4 Connection strings; or how to give a security engineer a heart-attack
4.1.5 Garbage collection through using statements and IDisposable
4.2 The FlightController: GET /flight/{flightNumber}
4.3 The FlightController: POST /flight
4.4 The FlightController: DELETE /flight/{flightNumber}
4.5 Exercises
4.6 Summary
Part 3: The Database Access Layer
5 Setting up a project and database with Entity Framework Core
5.1 Creating a .NET Core solution and project
5.2 Setting up and configuring a web service
5.2.1 Configuring a .NET Core web service
5.2.2 Using the Builder pattern in C#
5.2.3 Creating and using WebHostBuilder
5.2.4 Implementing the Startup class
5.2.5 Using the Repository/Service Pattern for our web service architecture
5.3 Implementing the database access layer
5.3.1 Entity Framework Core and “Reverse-Engineering”
5.3.2 DbSet and the Entity Framework Core workflow
5.3.3 Configuration Methods and environment variables
5.3.4 Setting an environment variable on Windows
5.3.5 Setting an environment variable on macOS
5.3.6 Retrieving environment variables at runtime in your code
5.4 Exercises
5.5 Summary
Part 4: The Repository Layer
6 Async, Test-Driven Development, and dependency injection
6.1 Test-Driven Development
6.1.1 Exercises
6.2 The CreateCustomer method
6.2.1 Why you should always validate input arguments
6.2.2 Using “Arrange, Act, Assert” to write unit tests
6.2.3 Validating against invalid characters and LINQ
6.2.4 In-lining test data with the [DataRow] attribute
6.2.5 Object initializers and auto-generated code
6.2.6 Constructors, reflection, and asynchronous programming
6.2.7 Locks, mutexes, and semaphores
6.2.8 Synchronous to asynchronous execution… continued
6.2.9 Dependency Injection and testing Entity Framework Core
6.2.10 Exercises
6.3 Summary
7 Equality, nullable types, and operator overloading
7.1 The GetCustomerByName method
7.1.1 Question marks: nullable types and their applications
7.1.2 Custom exceptions, LINQ, and Extension methods
7.2 Congruence: from the middle ages to C#
7.2.1 Creating a “Comparer” class
7.2.2 Overloading the equality operator
7.3 Exercises
7.4 Summary
8 Stubbing, generics, and coupling
8.1 Implementing the Booking Repository
8.2 Input validation, separation of concerns, and coupling
8.2.1 Exercises
8.3 Adding a booking to the database with object initializers
8.4 Unit testing with stubs
8.5 Programming with generics
8.6 Providing default arguments by using optional parameters
8.7 Conditionals, Func, switches, and switch expressions
8.7.1 Exercises
8.8 Summary
9 Extension methods, streams, and abstract classes
9.1 Implementing the Airport repository
9.2 Getting an Airport out of the database by its ID
9.3 Validating the AirportID input parameter
9.4 Output streams and being specifically abstract
9.5 Querying the database for an Airport object
9.6 Implementing the Flight repository
9.6.1 The IsPositiveInteger extension method and “magic numbers”
9.6.2 Getting a flight out of the database
9.7 Exercises
9.8 Summary
Part 5: The Service Layer
10 Reflection and mocks
10.1 The Repository/Service pattern revisited
10.1.1 What is the use of a service class?
10.1.2 Exercises
10.2 Implementing the CustomerService
10.2.1 Setting up for success: creating skeleton classes
10.2.2 How to delete your own code
10.2.3 Exercises
10.3 Implementing the BookingService
10.3.1 Unit testing across architectural layers
10.3.2 The difference between a stub and a mock
10.3.3 Mocking a class with the Moq library
10.3.4 Calling a repository from a service
10.3.5 Exercises
10.4 Summary
11 Runtime type checking revisited and error handling
11.1 Validating input parameters of a service layer method
11.1.1 Runtime type checks with the is and as keywords
11.1.2 Type checking with the is keyword
11.1.3 Type checking with the as keyword
11.1.4 What did we do in section 11.1
11.2 Cleaning up the BookingServiceTests class
11.3 Foreign key constraints in service classes
11.3.1 Calling the Flight Repository from a service class
11.4 Exercises
11.5 Summary
12 Using IAsyncEnumerable<T> and yield return
12.1 Do we need an AirportService class?
12.2 Implementing the FlightService class
12.2.1 Getting information on a specific flight from the FlightRepository
12.2.2 Combining two data streams into a View
12.2.3 Using the yield return keywords with try-catch code blocks
12.2.4 Implementing GetFlightByFlightNumber
12.3 Exercises
12.4 Summary
Part 6: The Controller Layer
13 Middleware, HTTP routing, and HTTP responses
13.1 The controller class within the Repository/Service pattern
13.2 Determining what controllers to implement
13.3 Implementing the FlightController
13.3.1 Returning HTTP responses with the IActionResult interface (GetFlights)
13.3.2 Injecting dependencies into a controller using middleware
13.3.3 Implementing the GET /Flight/{FlightNumber} endpoint
13.4 Routing HTTP requests to controllers and methods
13.5 Exercises
13.6 Summary
14 JSON serialization / deserialization and custom model binding
14.1 Implementing the BookingController class
14.1.1 Introduction to data deserialization
14.1.2 Using the [FromBody] attribute to deserialize incoming HTTP data
14.1.3 Using a custom Model Binder and Method Attribute for model binding
14.1.4 Implementing the CreateBooking endpoint method logic
14.2 Acceptance Testing and Swagger middleware
14.2.1 Manual acceptance testing with an OpenAPI specification
14.2.2 Generating an OpenAPI specification at runtime
14.3 The end of the road
14.4 Summary
Part 7: Coding Katas
15 Coding kata: the “Welcome Aboard-a-Tron 3000”
15.1 Composition and the Strategy design pattern
15.2 Creating the interfaces and concrete classes
15.3 Reading a text file and using StringBuilder
15.4 Displaying passenger names and sleeping a thread
16 Coding kata: “Adjacency Matrix”
16.1 Using graphs and matrices to model our problem
16.1.1 Creating a graph from an input set
16.2 Extracting an adjacency matrix from a doubly linked list
16.3 Executing a loop in parallel
16.3.1 Using the Task Parallel Library to execute a for loop in parallel
16.4 Printing an adjacency matrix to the console
Appendixes
Appendix A: Appendix A: Exercise Answers
A.1 Chapter 2: Tour de C# and .NET
A.2 Chapter 3: Requirements, models, and views
A.3 Chapter 4: Examining the controller class
A.4 Chapter 5: Setting up a project and database with Entity Framework Core
A.5 Chapter 6: Async, Test-Driven Development, and dependency injection
A.6 Chapter 7: Equality, nullable types, and operator overloading
A.7 Chapter 8: Stubbing, generics, and coupling
A.8 Chapter 9: Extension methods, streams, and abstract classes
A.9 Chapter 10: Reflection and mocks
A.10 Chapter 11: Runtime type checking revisited and error handling
A.11 Chapter 12: Middleware, HTTP Routing, and HTTP responses
A.12 Chapter 13: JSON Serialization / deserialization and custom model binding
Appendix B: Appendix B: Clean Code checklist
Appendix C: Appendix C: Installation Guides
Appendix D: Appendix D: OpenAPI FlyTomorrow
Appendix E: Appendix E: Reading List
What's inside
- Test-driven development
- Refactoring an API to a multi-platform .NET Core service
- Principles of clean code
- Using Entity Framework Core and LINQ to query and manipulate databases
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