reengineering a large winform app

[Guest]

Hi there,

I've inherited a winform application written in vb.net which I have to fix
up and add functionality to. I'm at a bit of a loss looking through it and
was wondering if anyone had any advice or could point me towards any
resources to do with refactoring/reengineering this vb.net app.
For instance namespaces aren't really used here and I was wondering if there
was some kind of methodology for going through the code and adding
namespaces. I don't really know where to start.

Thanks in advance, Jack.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Basically you're in for a pickle.
Essentially, there are three aspects of the applications that matter:

- What is the application supposed to accomplish?
- What code is used to accomplish this?
- What new code is required to accomplish the same, but in a more structured
way?

The first step is paramount here, since it is required to understand the
nature of the present code, which in turn is needed to distill a useful
working model from which to generate a new codebase.

There really is no easy way to do this, but doing things in the correct
order helps a lot )

HTH,

Danny van Kasteel