Extreme Programming Adventures in C#

Chapter 14. Don’t Try This at Home

Concern over potential code duplication in menus led me to do a little research. That led me to a really cool feature. I think I went down a rat hole—what do you think?

The Idle Brain Is the Devil’s Playground

In looking at the menu method from last time, I can foresee duplication of code. The method looked like this:

void MenuInsertSection(object obj, EventArgs ea) {
  model.SetLines(textbox.Lines);
  model.SelectionStart = textbox.SelectionStart;
  model.InsertSectionTags();
  PutText(textbox, model.LinesArray(), model.SelectionStart);
}

Now I foresee that lots of insertion methods are coming; I’ve seen the stories. There will be one to insert plain code like the method here, one for those precis things at the top of the ...