Professional Visual Studio 2015

Chapter 13Code Consistency Tools

What's in This Chapter?

• Working with source control
• Creating, adding, and updating code in a source repository

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If you are building a small application by yourself, it's easy to understand how all the pieces fit together and to make changes to accommodate new or changed requirements. Unfortunately, even on such a small project, the codebase can easily go from being well structured and ­organized to being a mess of variables, methods, and classes. This problem is amplified if the application is large and complex, and if it has multiple developers working on it concurrently.

In this chapter, you'll learn about how you and your team can use features of Visual Studio 2015 to write and maintain consistent code. The first part of this chapter is dedicated to the use of source control to assist you in tracking changes to your codebase over time. Use of source control facilitates sharing of code and changes among team members, but more important, gives you a history of changes made to an application over time.

Source Control

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