Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sat Jan 21 15:05:07 CST 2012
Hi Arthur, Could you please try to share your code snippets via Hotmail"s SkyDrive? A small sample part first... Thank you. Shamil 21 января 2012, 21:50 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: > For the past couple of years or so, I have been storing snippets of VBA > code as separate files in a subdir called VBA. But in the past couple of > months, I have switched to OneNote, and I am totally impressed with this > mechanism. I now have a NoteBook called VBA, and it contains several > sections, and I have copied and pasted all the former txt and bas files > into OneNote. This solution is WAY slicker than my old method. > > We all have different methods. No slight upon anyone here intended; my > preference is to include all the required code, and only the required code, > in any deployed solution. I do not want to burden the client with an > "Everything Including the Kitchen Sink" solution; 70%+ of which will go > unused in any given situation. > > Call me old-school: I can deal with that. I want all the required code and > only the required code to be deployed in any given deployment. This > practice dates to my years in lower-level languages. I admit that. But I > also resist the tendency to include "Everything including the Kitchen Sink" > approaches. > > Today I finally got around to importing all the snippets, previously stored > as separate text files, into one single OneNote file. Actually, I have > several such files now. Of interest here might be the MS-SQL file as well, > which contains several dozen sprocs and views and so on. Another contains > Recipes, since I am a fanatical cook; this file has two sections, Slow > Cooking and otherwise. > > The more I use OneNote, the more I'm loving it. It loads quickly and saves > automatically. Today's project was to import all my Access and SQL snippets > into a corresponding pair of OneNote files, and this solution is extremely > cool. > > The next logical step is to share said files with the community. No doubt, > there will be some overlap, but assuming that I send you my OneNote VBA > file, you could open it and import everything of interest into your own > equivalent. > > This approach strikes me as way more intelligent than than the old horse > "create a library and set a reference to it", for a couple of reasons: 1) > the larger the library, the longer it will take to load the module of > interest; 2) any code not part of the app of interest ought not to be there. > > Admittedly this is a tad more work than the old approach, but I like lean > and mean versus the "junk in the trunk" approach. Call me an old-timer if > you wish. > > -- > Arthur > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. > -- Niels Bohr > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com