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Carl and Richard talk to Michael Feathers about how to bring legacy code (that which has no testing code coverage) into the 21st century.

With the release of the 3.5 framework, we have a completely different coding style available (functional programming). We could actually do functional programming in the 2.0 framework, but the resulting code was ugly and hard to understand at a glance and thus hard to maintain. Now, with lambda method syntax and extension methods, we can produce very human-readable code written in a functional style.

This article discusses:NUnit to write unit tests NDoc to create code documentation NAnt to build your solutions CodeSmith to generate code FxCop to police your code Snippet Compiler to compile small bits of code Two different switcher tools, the ASP.NET Version Switcher and the Visual Studio .NET Project Converter Regulator to build regular expressions .NET Reflector to examine assemblies

Identify performance bottlenecks quickly and easily Optimize memory usage and locate memory leaks Visual Studio integration with context sensitivity Download file includes FREE PInvoke.net Visual Studio Add-in