Category: C#6

Why Developers Don’t Write Unit Tests

Post author By JBannister
Post date March 21, 2020
Categories In .Net Core, C#, C# 8, C#6, Unit Testing
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When I started my career in software development 22 years ago this year, it seemed that unit testing adoption was rather patchy. Whether you wrote unit tests or not, depended upon the environment you worked in. So most developers only used to write unit tests if they worked on a project which mandated unit testing, […]

Read-only Auto Properties

Post author By JBannister
Post date February 2, 2020
Categories In .Net Core, .Net Framework, C#, C#6

In this article I discuss read-only automatic properties. I am going to cover how automatic properties have changed over the releases of C# and along the way show how much more concise the code becomes. Automatic Properties Ever since C# 3.0 came out we had the ability to define automatic properties. Gone were the days […]

String Interpolation

Post author By JBannister
Post date February 2, 2020
Categories In .Net Core, .Net Framework, C#, C#6, String Interpolation

For years we have all used string.Format, it was one of those constructs that I thought “oh wow”, when I first started using the .Net Framework back in 2004. One of my colleagues at the time remarked “Its sweet, isn’t it?”, I guess we were easily amused back then? In C# 6 we saw the […]