Legacy Code - The Survival School

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Practical guidance for working with legacy code in C#, addressing common dilemmas like adding another if-statement versus rewriting from scratch. Covers typical problems encountered in maintaining legacy systems and concrete techniques to make that work easier and more pleasant.

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1. 0:00Legacy code introduction
2. 1:05Legacy code definition and drawbacks
3. 3:38Why not rewrite
4. 5:08Working with legacy strategies
5. 6:58Tests in code maintenance
6. 8:02Characterization tests
7. 13:28Making code testable
8. 14:31Dependency breaking techniques
9. 17:43Interface extraction
10. 20:36Handling external parameters
11. 24:18Dealing with Singletons
12. 27:54Step-by-step refactoring
13. 33:16Safe change introduction
14. 37:23Testing and refactoring

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