Regions: Love or Hate

Dave Kerr

I used to love regions, stuck them everywhere in my code. Now I hate them, each member of our team uses them differently. What's the public opinion - are regions good or bad? Would they be better if they were REALLY big in Visual Studio? I find that I'm squinting to find the little buggers, if they were much more obvious I might get lost less...

R Giskard Reventlov

I find them useful and now everyone else here does as well. (I get to enforce standards and, yes, the power has gone to my head).

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Dalek Dave

No, horrible. I want to be able to see the damn stuff I wrote.

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Marcus_2

Good, if used with some sense.

NormDroid

I initially thought they where a good idea, now I don't bother with them. I suppose the only place they are good for is Microsoft Generated Code from the IDE etc.

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Firo Atrum Ventus

I've seen regions being abused (hiding shitty code to make it look clean), overused (why would you keep a method in a region?) and underused (as in, WTF? why would you hide all your code in a region titled "main process"). So I can safely say "I.HATE.THAT.SH*T!"

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Dave Kerr

I see the same thing, regions used to hide rubbish, black holes that you never want to go near...

GuyThiebaut

I have a love hate relationship with them - they can hide what I don't need to see when I am looking at significant code :) they also hide the code within a region from the find dialogue box :mad:

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Slacker007

Dave Kerr wrote:

What's the public opinion - are regions good or bad?

I like them. However, like any code style, your team needs to ALL be on the same sheet of music.

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OriginalGriff

I wasn't sure until I started using them to group related items in the same file: Fields Properties Constructors Event handlers Public properties Private properties Now I find it reduces the clutter, and lets you see what you are interested in, without being distracted by irrelevancies. So much so that I modified the VS default class (and so forth) files to include them as standard. There is a Tip/Trick about it here: Adding your items to Visual Studio default files[^]

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Gary Wheeler

GuyThiebaut wrote:

they also hide the code within a region from the find dialogue box :mad:

Check the 'search hidden text' box in the Find dialog.

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OriginalGriff

Slacker007 wrote:

your team needs to ALL be on the same sheet of music

Oh yes! Nothing worse than one idiot individual who insists on K&R bracket format when everyone else has got an IQ bigger than their shoe size moved on to a more readable style.

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Tom Deketelaere

I like them but only if used with common sense. Like Digital Man I get to enforce the standards and I'v "implemented" a few regions that everybody now uses. It makes finding specific code easier. But like with everything if you use them to much or to little they don't make sense at all.

Gary Wheeler

I use them to break up groups of members/fields. It's nice to be able to collapse stuff away when I'm not concerned with it.

Dave Kerr wrote:

Would they be better if they were REALLY big in Visual Studio? I find that I'm squinting to find the little buggers, if they were much more obvious I might get lost less...

I wouldn't want them to be mandated in order to support Visual Studio features.

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RugbyLeague

I like them in my code, I find them irritating in the code of others

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

That is exactly what I do!

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GuyThiebaut

Thank you :)

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realJSOP

I like regions to a point. I think they would be more useful if we could set their background color to something other than the white space color.

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Gary Wheeler

In your defense, I didn't find it for a while. I think the box in the Find dialog should be labelled "search within collapsed regions", or something like that.

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DaveAuld

I tend to only use them if there is a lot happening on the code, and when i do use them, it is for the purpose of grouping like things together e.g. all button click methods together all menu.... all toolbar.... all statusbar.... all public properties together all private fields together like everything else though, each to there own, unless of course you are working to agreed coding guidelines as a group.

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