Refactoring In Visual Basic

For VbClassic see RefactoringInVbClassic.

VisualBasicDotNet does (or should?) have better support for refactoring.

How much of this applies to VBA (VisualBasicForApplications)?

Tools:

• VisualStudio has extremely limited tooling for refactoring VisualBasicDotNet programs.
• "Refactor! for Visual Basic" supports refactoring in VisualBasicDotNet
  • http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/VBRefactor/
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb693327.aspx
• Most features of JetBrains' ReSharper product are available in VisualBasic (IE: not limited to C#)
  • http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/index.html

DanijelArsenovski on RefactoringInVisualBasic:

• He wrote the book on it: "Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic" by DanijelArsenovski ISBN: 0470179791
• Blog: "Fluid Code", "A blog about refactoring, .Net and all things agile" - http://blog.refactoringin.net/
  • Old Blog: "Fluid Code", "A blog about refactoring, VB and all things agile" - http://blog.vbrefactoring.com/
• "Moving up the technology stack: VB6 migration reality check" article in VSj (1-Oct-2008) - http://www.vsj.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=756
• "VB’s Statically Typed Wrapper for Dynamic Code" article on CodeProject (23-Apr-2008) - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/StaticallyTypedWrapper.aspx
• "Refactoring – the elixir of youth for legacy VB code" article in IT Architect (6-Dec-2004) - http://www.itarchitect.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=116

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