Ctrl+Shift+R to access the refactoring menu then choose Pull Members Up… You can choose the interface that you want to add the declarations to and also select each method that you want to add to the interface. Gotta love Resharper! 😉
The following is how to rename a variable which is defined in the current scope {}. Move your cursor to the variable usage. Press gd. Which means – move cursor to the definition. Now Press [{ – this will bring you to the scope begin. Press V – will turn on Visual Line selection. Press … Read more
I agree with the ‘Vim is not an IDE’ paradigm. But there are times when there isn’t an IDE. Here’s what I use in those situations: Disclaimer: The ubiquity of Language Server Protocol servers, linters and fixers since I wrote this have also brought some great refactoring capabilities to Vim (and other editors). IMO they … Read more
Update: this answer is outdated. Stay away from the mixins if you can. I warned you! Mixins Are Dead. Long Live Composition At first, I tried to use subcomponents for this and extract FormWidget and InputWidget. However, I abandoned this approach halfway because I wanted a better control over generated inputs and their state. Two … Read more
I’m going to assume you mean C#. Some of these things apply to other languages, too. You have several options: switch from constructor to property setters. This can make code more readable, because it’s obvious to the reader which value corresponds to which parameters. Object Initializer syntax makes this look nice. It’s also simple to … Read more
I don’t know of a site that catalogs them directly, but one strategy that I’ve used on occasion is this: Find an old, small, unmaintained open source project on sourceforge Download it, get it to compile/build/run Read the documentation, get a feel for the code Use the techniques in Working Effectively with Legacy Code to … Read more
Here are some reasons why unused code should be removed: For anyone new working on a project, they not only have to understand the working code, they have to understand unused material also. This is wasted time and creates confusion. There is a danger that at some time, someone will make a change which inadvertently … Read more
Applying unit tests to legacy code was the very reason Working Effectively with Legacy Code was written. Michael Feathers is the author – as mentioned in other answers, he was involved in the creation of both CppUnit and CppUnitLite.
Here is a list of red-flags (in no particular order) that could indicate that a function is too long: Deeply nested control structures: e.g. for-loops 3 levels deep or even just 2 levels deep with nested if-statements that have complex conditions. Too many state-defining parameters: By state-defining parameter, I mean a function parameter that guarantees … Read more
You asked for it 🙂 “{{{Auto Commands ” Automatically cd into the directory that the file is in autocmd BufEnter * execute “chdir “.escape(expand(“%:p:h”), ‘ ‘) ” Remove any trailing whitespace that is in the file autocmd BufRead,BufWrite * if ! &bin | silent! %s/\s\+$//ge | endif ” Restore cursor position to where it was … Read more