I'm with Viv ... the delegate approach sounds good to me too.

~~Bonnie



>I'm refactoring some methods which have the pattern:
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>Do some common stuff
>Do some specific stuff
>Do some more common stuff
>
>Where the "Do some specific stuff" is really instance code implemented as:
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>Select Case...
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>or
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>IF
>Else If
>Else If
>.
>.
>.
>.
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>Some of these methods are 2000+ lines long :(
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>I am thinking of passing in a delegate for "Do specific stuff" because I know at design time what needs to be called.
>is this a reasonable approach?
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>Or
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>Is a better approach to create methods for
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>CommonStuff()
>SpecificStuff()
>MoreCommonStuff()
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>The delegate approach seems cleaner, I just wonder if I am missing something obvious. Any Thoughts?
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>Thanks
>
>Bruce