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AspDotNetDev wrote: Also, I have a standard commenting strategy for making comments on blocks of code inside methods. For example, I toss the comment "Variables" above the group of variables
I'd recommend using #regions for that. You then get the ability to collapse the sections you want to skip over.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Regions inside of regions? That's sick! That's like babies having babies. No thank you. Considering most methods I make have only a few variables, commenting works just fine.
Also, I don't collapse sections I want to skip over. I start by collapsing everything, then I expand the sections I'm interested in. 
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I have to agree that there is often problems in one developer understanding what another means with a name, and this is why I appreciate input on naming. Fortunately names are easy to update in development environments, which is not the case with comments. I will not deny that there are times that comments are good. I just agree more with Martin Fowler, and that if you are commenting, maybe you should look at your code and see if something better can be done. I hate useless comments because they take space. I like to be able to see as much of the code as possible so I can more easily take in the flow of the code. It may be just me. I can looks at a maze, and be able to figure it out with my eyes. The code that really drives me crazy I find is really difficult to figure out anyway. This is usually because it is a really sophisticated algorithm for efficiency. Give me great naming and properly designed code any day over comments. I agree with Martin Fowler.
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You know what I really wish for? Built in support within Visual Studio, with a hotkey, that allows yoy to collapse all comments. However, I want two versions: 1 mode that collapses decorative comments, and one that collapses all comments.
I love the intellisense comments provide, and don't always need to view them directly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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There kind of is. If you do a "Collapse All" under "Outlining", all regions/methods/comments will be collapsed. I think there is a key combination that does that too. Sadly, I don't think it works on markup.
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Kind of but not quite.
I have barebones code for a macro that will do it but never got around to finishing it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Remember to put it into a tip/trick when you're done. Just thought I'd remind you, since, you know, you'd totally forget to do that. 
Speaking of macros, I just finished writing my first VBA macro in Word to export to PDF and close the current document. Sped up my workflow, but now I feel dirty.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: my first VBA macro in Word to export to PDF and close the current document. Sped
up my workflow, but now I feel dirty.
You should
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I do have to aggree that comments can help, but most people create horrible comments.
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Agreed 120%. 
/ravi
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Sometimes I'm hanging-up:
all seems to be good and right, but code doesn't work as needed.
If I cant find error in reasonable time, I start commenting every line of code inside function - that really works for me.
Using such "very descriptive" commenting I solve 99% problems.
Possibly when writing I'm start to think ? 
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So next time you find yourself feeling the need to exercise the right to complain – or just feel like venting – spend some time finding the right person to complain to. A lot of times you find your anger is less than you initially think it is and many a time you will find that you did something wrong in the first place. This way to the suggestion box.
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While developers are incredibly intelligent, they can sometimes be a bit insecure about how smart they are compared to their peers. I've seen developer message boards tear apart billion-dollar franchises, indie darlings, and everything in between by overanalyzing and nitpicking. We always want to prove that we thought of an idea before anyone else, or we will cite a case in which an idea has been attempted, succeeded, failed, or been played out. In short, this article identifies communication techniques that are often used in discussions, arguments, and debates among game developers in order to "win" said conversations. The new Socratic method: shoot first, ask questions later.
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These are 8 issues I hoped wouldn’t have made their way into the final build. Having said that, within a few hours of installing, I completely switched to W8 on my Air as my primary OS. It’s beautiful, quick and Windows. It's like two, two... two operating systems in one.
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People have always culled personal libraries, of course, but the process is different in the age of the e-book. The literary classics that fill an entire book case are now all available electronically, most of them for free. Why carry “A Hazard of New Fortunes” or “The Brothers Karamazov” around when they can always be recalled from the Cloud, loaded onto a Kindle or the virtual shelf of the iBookstore? There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Fifty years ago this month, one of the most influential books of the 20th century was published by the University of Chicago Press. Many if not most lay people have probably never heard of its author, Thomas Kuhn, or of his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but their thinking has almost certainly been influenced by his ideas. The litmus test is whether you've ever heard or used the term "paradigm shift", which is probably the most used – and abused – term in contemporary discussions of organisational change and intellectual progress. He introduced a paradigm shift in paradigm shifts.
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Your PC may not need a faster network, but overall data usage on the Web is doubling every year. The big question: Can the venerable Ethernet standard handle a terabit per second? Remember when 9600 baud seemed screaming fast?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Remember when 9600 baud seemed screaming fast?
No.
It was always too slow!
(However, I do remember the joy when my local exchange upgraded from V.34 to V.90 and I would get a screaming 48kb connection)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh kkkkhhhhhhhhhhhh eeeeeehhhhhhhh! 
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Unless I have to go into an office and am hung over, I really like Mondays. I've had a break and am refreshed and positive about the week ahead work wise.
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They obviously never worked in IT with weekly jobs that run on Sunday night, crashing and spewing garbage everywhere, delaying other processing, etc., making Monday morning a massive fire drill trying to get everything fixed before the business people show up and expect to do real work.
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I don't know you, but i agree with that little orange cat, which was his name?... o yeah, Garfield.
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Science: 0
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What more can I say? This[^] article lays it all out pretty well, and the confusion in the Windows market is laid bare pretty well.
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Spot on.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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