Ten Tips for the C# Developer

48mIntermediate2024-08-26

Authors

Walt Ritscher

Programmer, UI Designer, Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Learn-it Labs

Course details

Take a deep dive into improving your C# development skills with ten transformative tips from expert coder Walt Ritscher. Explore ways to address common challenges and adhere to best practices in this course from Learn-it Labs. Learn how to avoid race conditions using the TryGetValue method, enhance switch statements with pattern matching for more readable and efficient code, make literals more readable with underscores, and extract items from sequences using indices for cleaner data manipulation. Walt also covers how to use the discard feature to ignore return values correctly, create thread-safe immutable types, use the ImmutableList collection to manage data securely, debug and work with nested collections using SelectMany, and more. Perfect for intermediate C# developers, this course will help empower you to write cleaner, more efficient, and safer code, enhancing your professional skills to grow your career.

Skills covered

C#Tips, Tricks, & TechniquesProgramming LanguagesMicrosoftSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Ten tips for C# developers
02 - How to access the sample code on GitHub

1. Ten Tips for C# Developers

03 - Avoid race condition with TryGetValue method
04 - Better switch statements with pattern matching
05 - Readable literals with the underscore
06 - Extract items from sequence with indices
07 - Discard feature - The right way to ignore return values
08 - Be more functional with the conditional operator
09 - Create a thread-safe immutable type
10 - Use the ImmutableList collection
11 - Show custom debugger information
12 - Work with nested collections and SelectMany

Conclusion

13 - Next steps