Thread: VS.NET Collapsable code

A very cool feature. I can collapse the code for each class or method of a class, for example here is the full class:

Code:

class Person
{
	private System.Random randomNumberGenerator;

	public Person()
	{
		randomNumberGenerator = new System.Random();
	}

	public int NewFloorRequest()
	{
		//Return randomly generated number
		return randomNumberGenerator.Next(1,30);
	}
}

Here is the class with the methods collapsed:

Code:

class Person
{
	private System.Random randomNumberGenerator;

	public Person()...

	public int NewFloorRequest()...
}

And here is the code with the class collapsed:

Code:

class Person...

You can open the collapsed code whenever you want. Makes editing more rich. One of the features of VS.NET

Write either managed or unmanaged C++ in the VS.NET IDE. The collapsible feature works with any code your write in any of the supported languages. It makes it a lot easier to scroll through a long program and organize.

Wow, that code looks so much like Java. It would probably be really easy for a Java Developer to learn C#, huh?

Not sure. I think they have some similar features, it's also similar to C and C++.

You have the choice. If you want to see all the code than don't collapse any of it, but remember in C# you don't have include files and unless you create several .dll files than everything will be in one file. Without collapable code than that would be hard to read. The VS.NET IDE has a ton of features, but until a textbook comes out, collapsable code is a good way to do the housekeeping. Infact I don't think that I will want to go without it. It's just as good as the tabbed windows that I can easily use to jump from window to window. I even heard that if you have a second monitor than you can drag some of the windows to a second screen. Now that would be cool.

Coming from a C++ and Java background I've been picking up C# very quickly. There are enough differences to make it interesting though. I think it's a pretty good language so far. I wonder what kinds of Benchmarks it has for performance. Gonna have to look into that.