Design Concepts

Structures and Value Types

• Point
• C# design guidelines for structs
• C# 7 News:
  • in parameter modifier
  • ref returns and locals
  • Span and Memory
  • stackalloc
    • For example see TestSutherlandHodgeman and TestRayCasting

XML Code Docs

• Docs
• Tools
  • GhostDoc
  • DocFX
• Examples
  • Point
  • Tutorial on GitHub
• Tip: inheritdoc
  • RandomPolygonGenerator

Immutables

• An immutable object is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created
  • Compare with freezables
• Point
• Related topics:
  • Read-only properties

Language Features

• Expression-bodied members
• Interfaces vs. abstract base classes
• Tuples
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Tuple deconstruction
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
  • For example see Point
• Examples for InternalsVisibleTo
  • For example see DoubleExtensions
• nameof
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Pattern matching with is
  • For example see PointsToPointMarkupConverter

Testing

• TestPoint
• Live Unit Testing (Enterprise Ed.)
• Async testing
  • For example see TestMonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Moq
  • For example see TestMonteCarloAreaCalculator

Async Programming

• Task
• Cancellation of tasks with CancellationToken
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Progress reporting with IProgress and Progress
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator

MVVM

• Prism Library
  • Tip: Prism Template Pack
  • Implementing MVVM
    • BindableBase

Various Topics

• Exception Design
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Partial classes
  • For example see MonteCarloAreaCalculator
• Enabling C# 7.x language features