Learning Paths

C# Development Best Practices

  • Number of Courses13 courses
  • Duration39 hours

Writing clean and maintainable code is a skill every developer needs to know how to do. Clean code is easier to extend, lowers maintenance cost over time and is easier to work with. The courses in this skill path are designed to help you refine your practices as a C# developer, to learn how to write code that is not just functional, but clean, maintainable and something you can be proud of.

After you have mastered the best coding practices using the C# language, you will be challenged to build larger and more complex applications. This skill path is designed to equip you with the knowledge to tackle these challenges by teaching you time tested practices in application design. This includes how to organize your code, how to take care of dependency injection and how to use advanced object oriented and functional programming techniques.

Courses in this path

Coding and Application Design Best Practices

Learn the best practices of C# development by writing clean, extensible and maintainable code.

Clean Coding Principles in C#

  • by Cory House
  • 3h 18m Duration
  •  (419)

Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals in C#

  • by Deborah Kurata
  • 3h 26m Duration
  •  (3307)

Defensive Coding in C#

  • by Deborah Kurata
  • 2h 14m Duration
  •  (221)

Refactoring for C# Developers

  • by Steve Smith
  • 2h 17m Duration
  •  (196)

SOLID Principles for C# Developers

  • by Steve Smith
  • 2h 8m Duration
  •  (596)

Getting Started with Dependency Injection in .NET 2

  • by Jeremy Clark
  • 2h 8m Duration
  •  (318)

Making Your C# 6 Code More Object-oriented

  • by Zoran Horvat
  • 7h 4m Duration
  •  (1001)

Applying Functional Principles in C# 6

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 28m Duration
  •  (496)

Applying Asynchronous Programming in C# 8

  • by Filip Ekberg
  • 3h 19m Duration
  •  (289)

C# Application Design

Having mastered the C# language and know how to implement the time-tested best practices, take you learning to the next level by learning how to engineer applications using design patterns, domain models, CQRS, and event sourcing.

Design Patterns Overview

  • by Steve Smith
  • 37m Duration
  •  (272)

Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles

  • by Matthew Renze
  • 2h 20m Duration
  •  (1606)

Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

  • by Dino Esposito
  • 4h 25m Duration
  •  (998)

Test Driven Development in C# 8

  • by Thomas Claudius Huber
  • 2h 26m Duration
  •  (195)

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Cory House
Cory House
Cory is the principal consultant at reactjsconsulting.com, where he has helped dozens of companies transition to React. Cory has trained over 10,000 software developers at events and businesses worldwide. He is a seven time Microsoft MVP, and speaks regularly at conferences around the world. Cory lives in Kansas City and is active on Twitter as @housecor.
Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata is a software developer, consultant, conference speaker, and Pluralsight author. Her courses include: Angular: Getting Started, Angular Routing, and Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals in C#. For her work in support of software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE).
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable app... more
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark makes developers better. By drawing on over 15 years of experience in application development, he helps developers take a step up in their skill set with a focus on making complex topics approachable regardless of skill level. He is a Microsoft MVP for .NET and has authored a number of articles about C# on his blog.. He loves sharing his experiences and has delivered over 300 technical presentations in the last 9 years in the United States and Europe. Jeremy lives in northern Washin... more
Zoran Horvat
Zoran Horvat
Zoran Horvat is Principal consultant at Coding Helmet Consultancy, speaker and author of 100+ articles, and independent trainer on .NET technology stack. He can often be found speaking at conferences and user groups, promoting object-oriented development style and clean coding practices and techniques that improve longevity of complex business applications.
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov is the author of the book Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns: https://amzn.to/2QXS2ch He has been professionally involved in software development for over 15 years, including mentoring teams on the ins and outs of unit testing. He's also the founder of the Enterprise Craftsmanship blog, where he reaches 500 thousand software developers yearly. He started as an adviser on general programming topics, but lately has shifted his focus to unit testing with a central ... more
Filip Ekberg
Filip Ekberg
Filip is an enthusiastic developer that strives to learn something new every day. With over a decade of experience in .NET, Filip actively spreads his knowledge and ideas around the globe, be it speaking at conferences or online. Filip has worked in a range of different technologies such as WPF, Win Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, and Xamarin. In 2012, Filip published the book C# Smorgasbord, covering a vast variety of different technologies and patterns using C#, and right after Filip was introdu... more
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze is a data science consultant, author, and public speaker. Over the past two decades, he’s taught over 400,000 software developers and IT professionals. He’s delivered over 100 keynotes, presentations, and workshops at conferences on every continent in the world (including Antarctica). His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small tech startups around the globe. Matthew is a Microsoft MVP in AI and an ASPInsider. He’s also the president of Serenze Global, a 501(c)(3) non-p... more
Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito
A long-time trainer and top-notch consultant, over the past 15 years Dino has been the author of many popular books for Microsoft Press that helped the professional growth of thousands of .NET and Web developers. Latest books are “Programming ASP.NET MVC” (MS Press, 2014, 3Ed) and “Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise” (MS Press, 2012). Scheduled to hit bookshelves in 2014 is also “Architecting Applications for the Enterprise” (MS Press, 2014, 2Ed) coauthored with Andrea Saltarello. ... more
Thomas Claudius Huber
Thomas Claudius Huber
Thomas is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Development. He works as a developer, consultant, and trainer in the fields of .NET, C#, TypeScript, XAML, and Azure. Thomas is a well-known speaker and book author. He has written several special interest books in his areas, including an extensive handbook for Windows Presentation Foundation and a handbook on development with TypeScript. Thomas lives in Germany's Black Forest with his wife and their three daughters. In his spare time, he plays football and ... more

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