From Zero to Hero: Refactoring for C# Developers

Learn refactoring techniques in C# to improve code quality and maintainability. This course covers modern practices to optimize your codebase, with examples to enhance readability, and testability.

About This Course

Are you a C# developer keen on enhancing code quality and maintainability? If yes, this "From Zero to Hero" course called "Refactoring for C# Developers" is tailor-made for you! This course will equip you with practical skills and the latest practices to refactor any C# codebase. Starting with an overview of refactoring, its importance, and when it's needed, the course delves into various modern and clean refactoring techniques. The best part? The course uses real-world examples to demonstrate how to transform a codebase to make it more efficient, readable, and extendable. With a focus on hands-on learning, guided examples are provided to demonstrate the refactoring process. But that's not all! The course also covers the implications of refactoring on team collaboration and project scalability. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of refactoring practices, which you can apply directly to your C# development projects. This course is delivered by Nick Cosentino, a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, and is based on years of hands-on experience in the field.

Course Curriculum

5h 7m 10 sections

Welcome

04:42 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

04:34 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

04:14 Free preview

Teaching style

03:29

What is refactoring?

08:30

What are the general goals of refactoring?

13:00

Introduction

02:34

Renaming private members

07:05

Renaming public members

07:24

Extract method

06:14

Inline method

06:57

Section recap

01:59

Introduction

02:05

Decompose conditional

18:31

Replace with temp query

09:11

Return early / reduce nesting

10:52

Section recap

01:03

Introduction

01:28

Wrap/isolate dependencies

23:51

Extract and inject

19:39

Section recap

02:12

Introduction

01:43

Parameters to parameter object

09:19

Replace conditional with polymorphism and composition

17:52

Introduction

01:26

Rule of 3 and DRY

11:36

Pull up method

10:54

Form template method

07:26

What is a rewrite vs refactor?

19:41

What are the pros of rewriting?

12:09

What are the cons of rewriting?

16:48

Mitigating risks in large refactors

11:16

Introducing the example

02:03

Conversion routes

03:04

Weather web response

02:24

Rule of three + DRY on DTOs

03:36

Strangler fig + repository facade

11:15

Summary of example

01:28

Conclusion

02:28

Course Details

Level From Zero to Hero

Duration

Rating

$89.99

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Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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