Practical refactoring in C#

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Practical Refactoring in C# by Patrick Szalapski

What a horrible mess this class is! Look at this--it has hard-wired static function calls, it’s newing up and hanging on to some IDisposables indefinitely, and it is just way too big. I dunno, maybe it needs a ServiceLocator? Whatever, I’m not messing with this. I’ll just new up another dependency and make it work for this new feature it needs. But boy, does this smell icky…

I’ll show you the way to incrementally fix up your code so that when you take it off the blocks, all will work well, quality goes up, and much goodness results.

Patrick Szalapski makes software and helps others make software at a Fortune 500 company and a little on the side. When not refactoring code from twelve years ago, he enjoys the outdoors in Minnesota year round, loves deeper thinking and discussion, talking way too much about the Minnesota Twins, and most of all being a dad and husband.