Question

I have a method that has 2 ref parameters:

public void ReplaceSomething(ref int code, ref string name)
{
    ...
}

I want to avoid this, as it is not a good design (and scales poorly). What are my options?

I’ve though about using an anonymous object, but that doesn’t seem like a good idea, either.

Object something = new { code = 1, name = "test" };

ReplaceSomething(something);

Answer 1

Are the code and the name closely linked together? If so, consider creating a type to put the two of them together. Then you can return a value of that type.

Alternatively, you might consider returning a Tuple<int, string>.

(In both cases you can accept an input parameter of the same type, of course. As you haven’t shown any of your code, it’s not really clear whether you use the existing values of the parameters, or whether they could basically be out parameters.)