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Extract Method

When developers go back and take a look at their code, perhaps during a periodic code review or after a particularly long session of heads-down development, they often find methods that are too long or coarse-grained, contain duplicate code, or are just poorly organized. A common thing to do is pass over the code and create fine-grained, discrete methods to reduce these issues and make for a more readable, reusable, and maintainable code base.

The problem, of course, is that doing this is time-consuming and often introduces bugs into the code. The C# code editor in Visual Studio 2010 provides an Extract Method refactoring tool to ensure a quick, bug-free experience when you’re working to better organize your code. With this tool, ...