Each developer has a different style of developing applications.  Given a single software problem, many people will come up with many different ways to develop the solution.  However, analyzing your trends in software development can help to create a base of reusable code that will minimize your total development efforts.

In addition, some of the standard tasks that you see examples on the MSDN can use a combination of inheritance and generics to help you not have to rewrite any of that code at all, as we will see in a future example.