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xunit.analyzers

Roslyn analyzers for xUnit.net (please open issues in https://github.com/xunit/xunit)

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Roslyn analyzers for xUnit.net (please open issues in https://github.com/xunit/xunit)

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Analyzers are a first class citizen in C#. You can get access to the AST during compile time and use it to output diagnostics with error or warning level, so it's more robust than just regex. I've not seen teams personally write them because they're abstract and most devs shy away from it, but working in the C# ecosystem the one place I do see them pop up occasionally is from library authors. For example xunit has some. https://github.com/xunit/xunit.analyzers So far I have found the value in them to be they help you constrain the possible valid moves that can be made in a codebase. This is valuable with teams of human engineers, but even more so with LLMs. It just so happens LLMs are really good at helping you write them too given you know what you want to enforce. I doubt the tooling is as good in other languages as it is in C# in this
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respect, but at least for devs working in the C# ecosystem LLMs have unlocked access to writing custom analysers on a whole new level, and with that it's now significantly easier to define and enforce rules regarding what constitutes a valid program, such that the set of valid programs matches your intended architecture.
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C# has a pretty huge standard library (or Microsoft official packages) that cover a lot of things here. Quickly running through the rust list, the things I suppose I would add: Dev Tools: - Analyzers are a great tool for getting compile time errors. I use Rosylnator (https://github.com/JosefPihrt/Roslynator) and Xunit Analyzers (https://github.com/xunit/xunit.analyzers) on every project, but there a ton of others focussing on performace, security, etc. - Editor Config is also great for maintaining consistent styling in your project (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/code-an...). Again, you can enforce this at build time, and Visual Studio and Rider will show errors in the IDE. Encryption: - Like the author I don't know much about this topic, but for hashing BCrypt is pretty well known and appears well respected (https:/
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/github.com/BcryptNet/bcrypt.net) Logging: - Microsoft has their own basics for this, but there are also a lot of 3rd party solutions, you can see a maintained list here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/lo... (I personally use Serilog). Serialization/Deserialization: - Microsoft have just added their own internal JSON serializer to .NET Core, so you should probably use that where you can, but it doesn't have anywhere near the same features that Newtonsoft's Json.NET does, so if you're in need of those then that's still the battle-tested standard (https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json). Time: - Personally I've never had a reason to use it over the standard DateTime, but I've heard good things about NodaTime (https://github.com/nodatime/nodatime) Images: - System.Drawing still exists in the standard library for Core, but it's Windows only I believe - ImageSharp is a great library for native image stuff in .NET Core, works across all platforms (https://docs.sixlabors.com/index.html). There was some hullaballoo a little while back about it's license, but that appears to be resolved now as it's Apache 2. - There's also an ImageMagick library if that's your jam (https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET) Networking: - .NET obviously has it's own httpclient, but it's worth mentioning Polly here (https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly). It allows you to extend the default Http Client with short circuits, automatic retries, exponential backoffs, etc. Databases: - Probably doesn't need saying, but Entity Framework for an all in one migration, entity mapping and database access library (https://github.com/dotnet/efcore). Since moving to Core, it's also a lot faster now, although I think it's still lacking a couple of features from the old framework version. - Dapper is focussed on being fast and simple (https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper) - NHibernate is also still a really powerful database library, even if I think it's API kinda sucks (https://github.com/nhibernate/fluent-nhibernate)
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