posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:33 PM
by
Saravana
Refactoring support in VB.NET 2005
One of the important features that was missing in VB.NET 2005 was refactoring though "Rename" capability was there.. But now Microsoft joined with Developer Express Inc and released a free plugin "Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2" to support refactoring. This tool supports following refactoring operations,
- Reorder Parameters
- Extract Method
- Extract Property
- Create Overload
- Surrounds With (Not available in BETA 2 release)
- Encapsulate field
- Reverse Conditional
- Simplify expression
- Introduce Local
- Introduce constant
- Inline Temp
- Replace Temp with Query
- Split Temporary Variable
- Move initialization to declaration
- Split initialization from declaration
- Move declaration near reference
To know more about this free plugin, check out this web page. This refactor plugin can be downloaded from the same location.