Sometimes, you've got to dump the old stuff because it is just too painful to make changes on. I've rewritten more than a couple of projects that I inherited f

Sometimes, you've got to dump the old stuff because it is just too painful to make changes on. I've rewritten more than a couple of projects that I inherited from less than competent outsourced contractors... Number one, these projects mostly didn't work, and had so many bugs that I'm not sure how it was ever shipped software that somebody paid for. Number two, it was all the worst kind of WebForms and Visual Basic monstrosity. I'm sure its possible to write non-terrible code with WebForms that looks good, but I've never seen it, and it was a matter of a couple weeks to burn it down and build a proper MVC application instead. My only regret there is that I waited too long to rewrite, and wasted a few months battling the manure pile of the old version and trying to improve it incrementally.