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ARGH! I hate this.. why do people always have to misrepresent things? This time it's Microsoft.. changing the meaning of Refactoring to be 'Transform my code'. The worse thing is that any tool that says it is a Refactoring tool will now be shunned by microsoft people because "It can't surround some code in an If statement".

Yes, that's right. Refactoring does not change the behaviour of the code. But here we have Microsoft offering people refactorings such as "Surround with.. Do While". Buh! Here, take a look at the screenshot.