There are two new refactorings introduced in Visual Studio 2015. The first of these allows you to introduce a local variable to simplify your code. Let’s see this at work on some source code from ImapTalk.

After selecting some code, press Ctrl+. (Control Dot) or select “Quick Actions…” after right-clicking on the selected code. You’ll get a list of refactorings that you can apply to your code, along with a nifty preview of what your code will look like after it is applied:

In this code I’ve got this Color object that I’m passing directly into the constructor of a SolidColorBrush, which looks a bit messy. With this refactoring, I’ll introduce a local variable to hold that Color, and then pass the new variable into the SolidColorBrush:

Once you select this refactoring, Visual Studio goes into inline rename mode, so that you can choose the name of the new variable.

Take a look at the refactored code above. Much better! 🙂