What To Do When Inheriting A Code Base: Part 1 Inspecting the code

in which I inherit a gigantic code base and its my job to support it and write some new functionality for it. I want to outline a few steps and practices I like to follow in order to get to the point that I’m confident making changes to the system in place. Note is that I use MS products in most of my development so I’m doing the article with those in mind.