A whole ?{?-enclosed scope is selected for ?Extract Method?, for example, the contents of an if-block, the enclosing braces are within the selection (typical selection: caret on one of the braces, Ctrl+Shift+[ to select the whole block). The created method thus has double braces, those of the method body and those of the selected block. The latter should be removed. Example of the result: void NewMethod() { { // Some Code } }