Code Snippet Respository

[StreamLogic]

All,

I'd like to hear how other developers/architects keep track of old
scripts, code snippets, relevant URLs, etc. I think most developers
have an area where they keep reusable code they would like to use
again. Year after year, we all develop things that can be reused in
various projects.

Do you simply have a file system folder where you dump all of this
information and then search on it? Do you have a custom database
solution for this?

I'd like to hear how others are keeping track of many years worth of
code snippets and scripts that they would like to reuse at some point.

Thanks,
Curtis

 

[DSK Chakravarthy]

Honestly, I don't maintain any repository. Every thing are strored in the
huge memory of human mind. Secondly as you explore and do it your self, you
would never forget. If you are a 'copy-paste' kind coder, you always have
google.

Apat of all, it is a good mechanism to blog what ever is your resolution.
after a time span, you will have self repository of resuable code.

HTH

 

[clintonG]

I use the file system for my collection which I locate under My
Documents/Documents for easy backup over the years.

I used to use HomeSite to manage snippets for several years but once
beginning to use Visual Studio 2003 and later releases which followed I've
been using Snippy which integrates with Visual Studio but was orphaned by
the developer and is very difficult if not impossible to find these days.
Lucky for me I've been keeping practically EVERYTHING under My Documents and
backing up all these years.

The .NET development community still needs a good snippet manager though.
Snippy being an orphaned remains okay and I appreciate the effort the
developer made making it free for me to use but using Snippy clearly shows
it suffered from feature creep which is why IMO the developer abandoned it;
its a lot of work to develop robust software and even worse when a guy
realizes all that work he is doing for free was not really needed or wanted
after all --but-- the basic functionality that he did in the first place
does the job just fine.

 

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

All,

I'd like to hear how other developers/architects keep track of old
scripts, code snippets, relevant URLs, etc.  I think most developers
have an area where they keep reusable code they would like to use
again.  Year after year, we all develop things that can be reused in
various projects.

Do you simply have a file system folder where you dump all of this
information and then search on it?  Do you have a custom database
solution for this?

I'd like to hear how others are keeping track of many years worth of
code snippets and scripts that they would like to reuse at some point.

Thanks,
Curtis

Hi,
I do remenber reading in the MSDN mag. a code repository-sharing
plugin for VS. It was in a "ten tool a developer needs" or some
similar title, do a search for it

 

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

Hi,
I do remenber reading in the MSDN mag. a code repository-sharing
plugin for VS. It was in a "ten tool a developer needs" or some
similar title, do a search for it- Hide quoted text -

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Found it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300778.aspx

CodeKeep is the name

 

[.\\\\axxx]

All,

I'd like to hear how other developers/architects keep track of old
scripts, code snippets, relevant URLs, etc. I think most developers
have an area where they keep reusable code they would like to use
again. Year after year, we all develop things that can be reused in
various projects.

Do you simply have a file system folder where you dump all of this
information and then search on it? Do you have a custom database
solution for this?

I'd like to hear how others are keeping track of many years worth of
code snippets and scripts that they would like to reuse at some point.

Thanks,
Curtis

I use Google!
After all, that's where I find most of this stuff out in the first
place, so I just make sure I keep well documented bookmarks in Firefox

 

[Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen]

All,

I'd like to hear how other developers/architects keep track of old
scripts, code snippets, relevant URLs, etc. I think most developers
have an area where they keep reusable code they would like to use
again. Year after year, we all develop things that can be reused in
various projects.

Do you simply have a file system folder where you dump all of this
information and then search on it? Do you have a custom database
solution for this?

I'd like to hear how others are keeping track of many years worth of
code snippets and scripts that they would like to reuse at some point.

Thanks,
Curtis

I tend to avoid copy and paste solutions to things I develope, and lean
towards expanding my evergrowing class library with new functionality.

This class library can then be reused directly and has its own source
control repository and similar.