--- title: Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 | daily.dev description: A review of Peter Ritchie's book 'Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010', published by Packt. The reviewer notes the title is misleading since Visual Studio 2010... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-refactoring-with-visual-studio-2010-jsoar2qkl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 | daily.dev og:description: A review of Peter Ritchie's book 'Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010', published by Packt. The reviewer notes the title is misleading since Visual Studio 2010... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-refactoring-with-visual-studio-2010-jsoar2qkl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JSoAR2qKL.png og:image:alt: Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A review of Peter Ritchie's book 'Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010', published by Packt. The reviewer notes the title is misleading since Visual Studio 2010 specific refactoring support only covers a small fraction of the content, with many refactorings noted as unsupported by the IDE. The real value lies in its coverage of design patterns, software design principles, and object-oriented concepts, illustrated with practical sample code such as a chapter on the single responsibility principle. The book is recommended as a must-read for its design and OOP content rather than its VS2010-specific material. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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