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RantRe: The cost of dead code and the only technique you need to know to clean it up Pin
Wonde Tadesse19-Aug-14 11:07
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PIEBALDconsult19-Aug-14 11:38
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Simon_Whale19-Aug-14 12:19
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PIEBALDconsult19-Aug-14 12:47
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Bernhard Hiller19-Aug-14 22:31
Bernhard Hiller19-Aug-14 22:31 
Oh yes, our code base is full of it.

But you can make it easy to spot, e.g. with the #region directive:
C#
#region old version
// Several lines - may be more than a 100 - of code commented out
#endregion
See the beauty of it?

And you can name old projects which you won't ever need again accordingly before you add (!) them additionally to the source code repository:
AbcConfig
AbcConfig.bak
ExhvPlayer.bak
ExhvRecorder
AudioMixer
AudioMixer.ori

When you check out the current workspace, you'll get all of that crap useful code. And, yes, you immediately see what's old and unused.

But worse: many cs-files have the Build Action "none". Can you imagine how I felt when I realized that after adding globalization/localization to many of them?

Dead | X| (We need a pukey - i.e. a puking smiley).
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NewsGoogle’s new music subscription service, YouTube Music Key, revealed Pin
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NewsFormer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer resigns from Microsoft's Board of Directors Pin
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NewsAs DBMS wars continue, PostgreSQL shows most momentum Pin
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NewsWhich language wins in terms of salary/demand (July 2014) Pin
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