Most potential software project maintenance bottlenecks can be avoided through the use of the principles and coding patterns discussed in this chapter. Attaining professionalism requires consistency to be disciplined and holds true to good coding habits, practices, and having a professional attitude towards TDD.
Writing clean code that is easy to maintain pays off in the long term as less effort will be required to make user-requested changes and users will be kept happy when the application is always available for use with few or no bugs.
In the next chapter, we will explore the .NET Core framework, and its capabilities and limitations. Also, we will take a tour of Microsoft Visual Studio Code before reviewing the new features available in Version 7 of the C# programming language.
