Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

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 code editor in Visual Studio 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, you ...