DRY & Coupling:
If one rule is expressed in two places in your code (violating DRY), and you want to change the rule, you must edit both places. This is coupling.byte[] OpenFile(string fileName)
{
    // Is it our file type?
    if (fileName.Extension == ".foo") ...
void AutoSaveFile(byte[] contents)
{
    path = Path.Combine(directory, DateTime.Now.ToString("dd_MM_yyyy") + ".foo");
If we decide to change our file extension to the much more reasonable ".bar", then we must edit both.
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