C# Best Practices for Developers

Learn how to develop reliable, readable, and sustainable application code by following coding best practices with C#.

Introduction

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

1. Best Practices: An Overview

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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Managing Objects Efficiently

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

5. More Best Practices Resources

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

Conclusion

• Next steps