C# 5.0 Unleashed

Code Insight

An all-important set of features that form an integral part of IDE functionality today is what we can refer to collectively as “code insight” features. No matter how attractive the act of writing code may look—because that’s what we, developers, are so excited about, aren’t we?—the reality is we spend much more time reading existing code in an attempt to understand it, debug it, or extend it. Therefore, the ability to look at the code from different angles is an invaluable asset to modern IDEs.

Note

For the examples that follow, we shy away from our simple Hello application because its simplicity does not allow us to illustrate more complex software projects. Instead, we use one of the sample applications that you can download through ...