Brian,
Well, you can't really go by character count because of the things you
said. All things considered, usually in VS.NET when developing, I have the
project explorer pinned, and I have the server explorer/toolbar hidden (in
fly-out mode). Once I have that setup, with the default font settings and a
system with a 1280x1024 resolution, I try and make sure that one line of
code does not wrap past the available real estate in the code editor.
I've found that placing the server explorer/toolbox window in fly-away
mode gives me a good amount of real estate to work with, and gives me good
boundaries for the code in the file.
Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Brian Gideon" <br*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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All,
I want to know how others deal with long lines of code. Do you care?
If so, what rule(s) do you follow? Is it important to you how it looks
on printed paper or displayed on the screen? Being able to keep all of
the code on the screen without scrolling horizontally is important to
me, but the 80 character rule is limiting and outdated and anything
else seems arbitrary considering that different developers use
different screen resolutions, fonts, IDE layouts, etc.
Brian