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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:07:04+00:00

Ever since I started using .NET, I’ve just been creating Helper classes or Partial

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Ever since I started using .NET, I’ve just been creating Helper classes or Partial classes to keep code located and contained in their own little containers, etc.

What I’m looking to know is the best practices for making ones code as clean and polished as it possibly could be.

Obviously clean code is subjective, but I’m talking about when to use things (not how to use them) such as polymorphism, inheritance, interfaces, classes and how to design classes more appropriately (to make them more useful, not just say ‘DatabaseHelper’, as some considered this bad practice in the code smells wiki).

Are there any resources out there that could possibly help with this kind of decision making?

Bare in mind that I haven’t even started a CS or software engineering course, and that a teaching resource is fairly limited in real-life.

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  1. A real eye-opener to me was Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code:

    With proper training a skilled system designer can take a bad design and rework it into well-designed, robust code. In this book, Martin Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one.

    Refactoring http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519XT0DER6L._SL160_PIlitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg

    It helped me to efficiently and systematically refactor code. Also it helped me a lot in discussions with other developers, when their holy code has to be changed …

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