Code Library with Auto Add Feature

Way back in the days of yore, about thirteen years ago, I decided I needed a central repository for all my random bits of code. Not having the dollars at the time, I decided to build my own code repository.

This was before the time of now well-known repos such as GitHub and the like, so I was using a simple file system based method of storing my code. Being fresh into database programming, I figured it would be a simple matter to store my code in an Access database, so it would be searchable, etc.

I was strolling through another VB-related site, and I actually found the submission of an early version of the code library. I have attached the zip file of the project to this post. Commenting is a bit sparse inside the project; I was still learning the virtues of documentation back then. Sorry about that.

Features

Code is organized by category
Easy addition of single code entries
Editing of existing entries
Auto-add of code. I was really proud of this! It scans the selected drive for Visual Basic files, and allows you to add individual or all items to the library.

I actually used a newer version of this (which I can't find at the moment!) for quite awhile. I was able to pop this up in the IDE on my Windows 10 workstation with no problem. It runs equally well in the IDE and as a compiled program.

The project demonstrates:

drive/directory/file dialogs
recurse directories
file system processing
sequential file reading
read and writing from an MS Access database
string handling functions

If there is any interest, I wouldn't mind doing some updates to this. It will be free, as always.

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Posted: 2017-08-06
By: dwirch
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