---
title: "Refactoring, FINALLY!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/refactoring-finally.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/refactoring-finally.html"
published: "2003-10-27T19:38:00"
updated: "2003-10-27T19:38:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If there's one thing that stood out for me from the Whidbey screenshots, it's this: FINALLY, some refactoring support! Hopefully, this is just the beginning. The Whidbey team should take notice of the amount of…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Refactoring, FINALLY!

By Roy Osherove October 27, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

If there's one thing that stood out for me from the Whidbey screenshots, it's this:

[![Powerful new code refactoring](https://osherove.com/img/wb/e5e843fa_asp.net_whidbey_images_Refactoring_sm.gif)](http://asp.net/whidbey/images/ShowImage.aspx?id=40)

FINALLY, some refactoring support! Hopefully, this is just the beginning. The Whidbey team should take notice of the amount of refactorings available in products such as IntelliJ IDEA, which I've just [written](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/33538.aspx) [about](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/33541.aspx) a few posts ago, but I like the way this is going!

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