Source control and organization

1. What do you guys use for source control? I'm looking for something I can use to maintain my projects without having to basically just copy/paste into a new location frequently to have a backup version.

2. Visual studios question:
Rather than having a REALLY long sub() is there a clever technique for putting each of my parts
I.e. Decompile , each hack, recompile... Into a separate sub() and in my on button press event have a line to run each of the separate subs?

For source control, use github

Regarding above, I hate GitHub, but hey im definitely part of the few that do, maybe you'll like it. I recommend that or possibly a cloud service that supports regular backups or file versions (although that stuff is a pain since it's not made for code).

Regarding your Visual Studio stuff (which is coding in general), you can do a bunch of things:
- Static classes or whatever that's called in VB.
You can store static variables and methods in the class which would be a lot like having the code typed directly where you're working, but, it's in an entirely
files, has its own scope etc.

- OOP, create a, for example, "CodeInserter" class thats not static, give it a contstructor that will define what mod it's supposed to do, within its class it will get the code for the mod and apply it. Then it's as simple as: When build is clicked, foreach checkbox that's check create a new instance of CodeInserter that will apply the mod.

- If you use a piece of code 3 or more times, make it a method.

- Don't put all of your code in the Button_Click event, make the event call a function or something that's in a more organized spot.

- Regions. Use #region <Region Name> and #endregion to create collapsible regions in VS. very handy.

- Code things with a dynamic influence. Dont make a method that only adds a specific mod for example. Store the mods in a .txt or something and code something that will read that and handle what was read, not hardcoded.

- A lot more that I can't think of

I hope i made sense lol

Originally Posted by krazyshank

I hope i made sense lol

Couldn't have asked for a better response on #2. I almost mentioned you in that part of my post lol. Thanks

I'm going to go through my code and utilize a functions and separate subs to make my code shorter and more readable. It just keeps getting more and more cluttered.

Also regions O.o
Best thing ever

Originally Posted by unheXed

For source control, use github

Trying to figure out GitHub makes me feel like an idiot lol

Originally Posted by maat7043

Trying to figure out GitHub makes me feel like an idiot lol

If you have windows, get Git Extensions, it is very useful

If I'm not wrong, you can "link" your project to an other folder(which is not default folder), eg. to your "cloud"-folder so you can directly make backup without any additional copying.
And yea, split your code in subs/functions/ methods/ w/e you call them so you can easily debug it later if something bugs out.
If you reuse same code alot, prevent redundancy and use methods.
krazyshank told you most of important things, so yea, there's no need to repeat what's already told.

Originally Posted by Lovroman

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Originally Posted by unheXed

If you have windows, get Git Extensions, it is very useful

I find this much more user friendly thanks

that told... just losta whole afternoon of coding because of a bad manipulation in VS source control

Jesus. Why they cant simply use "pull, push, commit ,etc...."?

I was writing the XMl of packet definitions so the t4 templates can generate packet handling code ..

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