Archive | 2010

Books I Recommend – Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

  Yet another classic. This book is an extensive compilation of refactorings that range from providing meaningful names for variable to collapsing class hierarchies. Every pattern is introduced in three stages – Motivation, Mechanics, and Example. The Motivation section presents the problem that a refactoring is trying to solve. Then the Mechanics section explains how [...]

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Books I Recommend – Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

  “Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees.” Here is another one of my favorite books. I am not sure if this book needs introduction but if you haven’t heard about it or read it Clean Code is one of THE books on [...]

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Visual Studio Code Snippets for TestClass and TestMethod

Tired of writing [TestMethod] and [TestClass] when creating tests? Well, I got tired and wrote two very simple Visual Studio snippets that can create test classes and test methods. Just copy the two .snippet files into C:\<Program Files Folder>\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C# , restart Visual Studio and you are good to go. Enjoy. Download [...]

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