> - Buy ReSharper, and start doing mechanical refactorings on the codebase to fix the obvious and easy code smells. What the changes are doesn't really matter m

> - Buy ReSharper, and start doing mechanical refactorings on the codebase to fix the obvious and easy code smells. What the changes are doesn't really matter much; the point of this exercise is to start to get a feel of where everything is in the code. Since you're just using the ReSharper commands, there's no risk of breaking anything by doing this. I love ReSharper, and it has been worth every penny that I've ever paid for updates, but you still have to be very careful. I've walked into a few very heinous bugs where simple refactorings have broken things badly. Mostly this was because of people doing evil things with reflection and dependency injection, that should never have been done, or because of arcane config-file based development, where even ReSharper's excellent "Find Usages" and code analysis engine cannot fully understand what is going on.