.NET best practices? [closed]

Answer 1

You may find these two books useful:

1. Effective C#
2. More effective C#

They are specific to C#, but you'll certainly learn many good ideas that apply to any .NET language.

Answer 2

Learn how to use Reflector. It will teach you more then you think.

Answer 3

Let's see what interesting things I can learn from Stack Overflow users.

This may not be exactly on target with "best practices" but certainly may be interesting to you. It looks like Stack Overflow has its share of practices, tips and tricks documented already.

For .NET:

• ASP.NET MVC
• Visual Studio
• Compact Framework

For C#:

• Hidden Features of C#
• Syntax Highlighting tricks

Answer 4

For OO code you may want to check out the SOLID principles. However some argue they get in the way of a finished product.

Answer 5

This is not .NET specific, but the most important I think is the SOLID principle. Robert Martin (aka UncleBob) has a nice reference here. I will quote the most important section:

1. SRP The Single Responsibility Principle A class should have one, and only one, reason to change.
2. OCP The Open Closed Principle You should be able to extend a classes behavior, without modifying it.
3. LSP The Liskov Substitution Principle Derived classes must be substitutable for their base classes.
4. DIP The Dependency Inversion Principle Depend on abstractions, not on concretions.
5. ISP The Interface Segregation Principle Make fine grained interfaces that are client specific.

Steven Bohlen has made a short series of web casts about them at dimecasts.net.