About The Author

1. Other Leanpub Books by Jason Roberts
2. Keeping Software Soft
3. C# Tips
4. Pluralsight Courses

About this Book

Introduction

1. What is Clean C#?
2. Why Clean C#?
3. Using this Book
4. Code Samples
5. Order
6. Prescriptive
7. Clean C# is a Spectrum

Comments

1. Repeating What the Code Already Says
2. Change Control Comments
3. Comments as a Substitute for Self Documenting Code
4. Commented-Out Code
5. Pointless XML Documentation Comments
6. Acceptable Use of Comments

Naming Things

1. Qualities of Clean Names
2. Expressive
3. Accurate
4. Suitable Length
5. Pronounceable Names
6. Naming Specific Items
7. Namespaces
8. Interfaces
9. Classes
10. Methods
11. Properties
12. Events
13. Fields
14. Attributes
15. Method Parameters
16. Variables
17. Booleans
18. Generic Types Parameters
19. Enums
20. Some General Rules

Methods

1. Method Size and Clarity
2. Cohesive Methods
3. Mixing Abstraction Levels
4. Action or Answering Methods
5. Method Parameters
6. Methods with Zero Parameters
7. Methods with One Parameter
8. Methods with Two Parameters
9. Methods with Three Parameters
10. Methods with More Than Three Parameters
11. Refactoring to Reduce the Number of Parameters
12. Params
13. Output Parameters
14. Named Arguments
15. Boolean Switching Arguments
16. Multiple Returns
17. Code Duplication in Methods
18. Methods with Side Effects

Structuring Programs for Readability

1. Levels of Abstraction
2. Method Level Abstractions

Errors and Exceptions

1. Returning Error Codes
2. Using Exceptions
3. Supplied Framework Exceptions
4. Defining Custom Exceptions
5. Alternatives to Error Codes, Exceptions, and Returning Nulls
6. Try Methods
7. Special Case Design Pattern

Visual Formatting

1. The Principle of Proximity
2. The Principal of Similarity
3. The Principal of Uniform Connectedness
4. The Principal of Symmetry

Cohesion and Coupling

1. Cohesion
2. Coupling

Clean Tests

1. Qualities of Good Test
2. Execution Speed
3. Independent and Isolated
4. Repeatable and Reliable
5. Valuable
6. Resilient to Production Code Changes
7. The Three Logical Phases of Tests
8. The Arrange Phase
9. The Act Phase
10. The Assert Phase
11. How Many Asserts?
12. Simplifying Arrange Phase code with AutoFixture

Building On Clean Code

1. The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
2. The Open Closed Principle (OCP)
3. The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
4. The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
5. Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
6. Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
7. You Aren’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI)