My new tutorial: Making class libraries in C#

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After my last tutorial got such a welcome response from this community, I asked everybody what they would like me to do a tutorial on next, and quite a few people suggested that I should do a tutorial that shows how to build a class library, so here it is:

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As before, I welcome all feedback from learners/experts alike

[fatgav]

/me throws rep in a northerly direction...

[WedgeBob]

Perhaps when the time comes for OOP in the C++ 101 class, you should consider writing up one of these for that time, too, for that language.

[VelariaKnight]

Can you dynamically load a C# DLL?

[florem]

@Segfault

- Some commas and dots missing.
- Don't start sentences with so. Read the sentence that start with it then skip the so and read again.
- But what use is that? read it a few times.
- Show us some code man! read it a few times.
- What is a class library? What are class libraries?
- In the next part I will (on page one).
- one source file for each / a source file for each
- one page 2 so many simple it makes the reader rather uneasy.
- Wikipedia has a rather good article on this stuff. Wikipedia has a good article [<-link placed on article] on this cipher [or here].
- So thats it? / So that's it?

Maybe more but that was just at a glance.

I would suggest writing the article with spell check (maybe a WordPress plugin?) or with Google docs/drive which has that.

Also, I would split them into 2 articles. For example, the first article related to DLL would have the code simple like:

public double Simple_Add(double a, double b)
{
return a + b;
}

public double Segfault_Add(double a, double b)
{
double segfaultAdd = Random.NextDouble(); // don't have a ide opened atm so don't know if that is how you'd write this

return a * a + segfaultAdd * a * b + b * b;
}

The second article, separated from this, I would call something like Creating the CaeserLib as a class library. In the beginning of that, I would suggest to the reader to go to the article about intro to class libraries if they don't understand the concept. At the end of the intro to class libraries I would also place a link for the Creating the CaeserLib as a class library.

Now, as for the writing part, I get the sense that there was more haste in writing this then on the four ways.

PS: Hope you don't mind the review.

[Segfault]

Thanks for the feedback florem, I was kind of tired when I was finishing writing it up. I will go back and take a look at all of the points you mentioned. As for splitting it up into two articles you may be right, but I didn't just want to be like every tutorial for this out there that just gives a pointless example.

[Dragonclaw1988]

Nice tutorial! Does unit testing work for .dll projects or do you have to create a completely separate project and then add the .dll to try it?

[Segfault]

You can have multiple projects in one solution. If you right click on your solution, you can add another project. I like to keep my console projects separate from my logic (so I put the logic in a class library). You can add a new project specifically for unit testing into the same solution if you want.

[dackjaniels]

Very clear and useful Segfault, thank you!