The award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices helped bring Agile principles from a practitioner's point of view to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now, Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin have produced a completely updated volume for .NET programmers, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#. This book presents a series of case studies illustrating Agile Development and Agile Design, and moves quickly from UML to real C# code. The introductory chapters lay out the basics of the agile movement, while the later chapters show these techniques in action. The book includes source code examples that are also available for download from the author's Web site. the fourteen practices of Extreme Programming; spiking, splitting, velocity, and planning iterations and releases; test driven development, test first design, and acceptance testing; refactoring with unit testing; pair programming; Agile design and design smells; the Single Responsibility Principle and the Open Closed Principle; the Liskov Substitution Principle and the Dependency Inversion Principle; the Interface Segregation Principle, and Separation through Delegation and Multiple Inheritance; the five types of UML diagrams and how to use them effectively; object-oriented package design and design patterns; and how to put all of this together for a real-world project. Whether you are a C# programmer, a Visual Basic or Java programmer learning C#, a software development manager, or a business analyst, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is the first book you should read to understand agile software and how it applies to programming the .NET Framework.