Martin Fowler's "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is perhaps THE reference: Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the design of an existing code base. Its essence …

Refactoring is modifying existing code to improve its readability, re-usability, performance, extensibility and maintainability. Have you ever looked at code and thought, "Wow this is a mess" or "this could …

Feb 14, 2013 · Refactoring a God Class is a complex task, as this disharmony is often a cumulative effect of other disharmonies that occur at the method level. Therefore, performing such a refactoring …

There is no way to turn refactoring off in the settings. My guess is that the project's cache/indexes are corrupted. I had a case once where refactoring, especially renames, stopped working. A re-index …

Visual Studio 2019 provides at least 2 built-in options: 'Move to namespace...' refactoring can be triggered on any class, and VS will prompt for the target namespace. 'Change namespace to...' …

Right click on your current namespace and select Refactor -> Rename and change the name in the pop up that comes up after a while. Enter your new name and click ok. If you have multiple depths to your …

Refactoring this kind of system either requires methods taking more generic objects than needed, followed by typechecking and casting, or else the class hierarchy needs to be rethought & …

A good rule of thumb by is that I intelligently refactor any method over 50 lines. The count does not include comments and white space but actual code. The reason I also say intelligently is ther...

Pylance is now installed automatically with vscode-python extension, and it's actively developed - maybe they will implement more refactorings in the future. If you're looking for more robust refactoring, …

Refactoring code is a process of cleaning up your code, reducing the clutter and improving the readability without causing any side effects or changes to features. Basically, you refactor by …