secretGeek.netRefactoring With Whidbey
According to Microsoft's Paul Vick, Refactoring support in VB.net will differ from that in C#. Terminology and structure of available features will be simplified to cater for the less rigorous intellect of the VB developer.
I cannot confirm that this image is legitimate. But it is reputedly the first screen shot of the context menu available to VB programmers in the Whidbey IDE.
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G. Andrew Duthie on November 17, 2003 00:00 sez:
Oh, I do hope that the VB team sees this! I'm a VB guy too (though I use C# as well), and this is too funny!
HumanCompiler on November 17, 2003 00:00 sez:
I'm mainly a VB'er and yes, that's hillarious! :D
Julie Lerman on November 17, 2003 00:00 sez:
excellent! I had to put it on my blog after David Stone pointed to it. I'm sure Paul Vick and Don Box will find this one quickly!
Roy Osherove on November 17, 2003 00:00 sez:
Heh. Good one :)
Mike Harges on November 18, 2003 00:00 sez:
Love it, but "Rethinkify" is probably still too technical. Some alternatives:
"Rethink" and "Reconsider" came to mind, but they didn't seem to convey the right meaning.
"Try Again" is closer to the VB mindset, but it implies that the original version is somehow a failure.
And my preferred option:
"Do Over" A succinct description that even a VB'er could understand. Plus, it dovetails neatly with the wailing that you'll get when you explain to them what refactoring is - "What? You want me to do it again? I had a hard enough time doing it the first time!"
Mike H.
VB'er since version 1.0
Julie Lerman on November 18, 2003 00:00 sez:
Leon-After we murdered your domain yesterday, I have grabbed the image and will put it on my webserver and point to it from my blogpost. Just wanted to let you know.julie
Mike Fan on November 23, 2003 07:36 sez:
The following is a quote from Mike Gunderloy:
"Suppose the same thinking had been in place when object-oriented programming started to creep into VB 4? "Oh, let's not call them classes; VB developers don't have time to figure that term out. Let's call them boxes instead.
"Imagine the difficulty that VB developers would have had in communicating with the rest of the development world."
on July 24, 2004 20:09 sez:
todd shole on July 27, 2004 16:34 sez:
this is hilarious!