It is not unusual to see a lot of switch statements or multiple if else statements in OO codes. From the view of code maintainability, probably some of such codes need refactoring. Strategy pattern is a good replacement. For example, the old code...

Recently I uninstalled my VS 2008 and tried to install VSTS 2008. Unfortunately I was blocked by a couple of setup errors. Thus, I found a couple of good links/tools. Generally speaking, if we want to uninstall VS 2008 and reinstall a new VS 2008,...