Prefessional Refactoring in Visual Basic -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Whom This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Smell, Refactoring, and Object-Oriented Design Principle Boxes -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Part I: Introduction to Refactoring -- Chapter 1: Refactoring: What's All the Fuss About? -- A Quick Refactoring Overview -- The Refactoring Process: A Closer Look -- Visual Basic and Refactoring -- Summary -- Chapter 2: A First Taste of Refactoring -- Calories Calculator Sample Application -- Refactoring in Action -- Implementing the Persistence Functionality -- Calories Calculator, Refactored Version -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Assembling a Refactoring Toolkit -- Using an Automated Refactoring Tool -- Unit-Testing Basics: The Testing Harness -- A Few Words about Version Control -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Rent-a-Wheels Application Prototype -- Interviewing the Client -- Taking the Initial Steps in the Rent-a-Wheels Project -- Making the Prototype Work -- Fast and Furious, a VB Approach to Programming -- From Prototype to Delivery Through the Refactoring Process -- Summary -- Part II: Preliminary VB Refactorings -- Chapter 5: Chameleon Language: From Weak Static Typing to Strong Dynamic Typing -- Option Explicit and Option Strict, the .NET Effect -- Setting Option Explicit On in Relaxed Code -- Setting Option Strict On in Relaxed Code -- Static Versus Dynamic Typing and Visual Basic -- Activating Explicit and Strict Compiler Options -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Error Handling: From Legacy to Structured in a Few Easy Steps -- Legacy Error Handling Versus Structured Error Handling -- The Benefits of Structured Error Handling -- Replacing the On Error Construct with Try-Catch-Finally.

Replacing Error Code with Exception Type -- Error Handling in the Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Basic Hygiene: Eliminating Dead Code, Reducing Scope, Using Explicit Imports, and Removing Unused References -- Eliminating Dead Code -- Reducing the Scope and Access Level of Unduly Exposed Elements -- Using Explicit Imports -- Removing Unused Assembly References -- Basic Hygiene in the Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Part III: Getting Started with Standard Refactoring Transformations -- Chapter 8: From Problem Domain to Code: Closing the Gap -- Understanding the Problem Domain -- Naming Guidelines -- Published and Public Interfaces -- Rename and Safe Rename Refactoring in the Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Chapter 9: The Method Extraction Remedy for Duplicated Code -- Why Keep Code Encapsulated and Details Hidden? -- Information and Implementation Hiding -- Decomposing Methods -- The Duplicated Code Smell -- Magic Literals -- Extract Method and Replace Magic Literal Refactoring in the Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Method Consolidation and Extraction Techniques -- Dealing with Temporary Variables -- Method Reorganization Heuristics -- Method Reorganization and Rent-a-Wheels -- Summary -- Part IV: Advanced Refactorings -- Chapter 11: Discovering Objects -- A Quick Object-Oriented Programming Overview -- Designing Classes -- Discovering Hidden Classes -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Concepts and Related Refactorings -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Genericity -- Inheritance Abuse and Refactoring Solutions -- Making Use of Generics -- Inheritance and Generic Types in the Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Code Organization on a Large Scale -- Namespaces -- Assemblies -- Visual Basic Project File Structure Organization.

Namespace Organization and Windows Forms Inheritance in Rent-a-Wheels -- Summary -- Part V: Refactoring Applied -- Chapter 14: Refactoring to Patterns -- Design Patterns: What's All the Fuss About? -- Example Design Pattern: Abstract Factory -- Dependency Injection Pattern -- Refactoring to Patterns and Rent-a-Wheels Application -- Summary -- Chapter 15: LINQ and Other VB 2008 Enhancements -- Type Inference for Local Variables -- XML Productivity Enhancements -- Querying the Objects with LINQ -- Summary -- Chapter 16: The Future of Legacy VB Code -- To Migrate or Not To Migrate -- Preliminary VB 6 Refactorings -- Putting Your Migrated Code under a Testing Harness -- Upgrading Your Legacy Code -- Summary -- Appnedix A: Unleash Refactor! -- Appendix B: Rent-a-Wheels Prototype Internals and Intricacies -- Hand Over Button Click Event-Handling Code -- Receive Button Click Event-Handling Code -- Charge Button Click Event-Handling Code -- Change Branch Button Click Event-Handling Code -- To Maintenance and From Maintenance Button Click Event Code -- Administer Fleet Form -- Display Button Click Event-Handling Routine -- Summary -- Index.