Visual Studio Refactoring Basics
The Visual Studio refactoring tools work to ensure that you see the promises of refactoring: increased reuse of your code, fewer rewrites, reduced duplication, and better readability. These tools work to instill confidence in the edits they make to your code. They do so by using a common refactoring engine based on the new .NET compiler platform (“Roslyn”) rather than string matching and search-and-replace. The engine and compiler work together to cover the entire code base (and its references) to find all possible changes that need to be made as part of a given Refactor operation. The engine even searches out code comments and tries to update them to reflect new type names. In addition, you can preview changes ...
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