How do you feel about code folding? [closed]

Question

For those of you in the Visual Studio environment, how do you feel about wrapping any of your code in #regions? (or if any other IDE has something similar...)

Answer 1

9 out of 10 times, code folding means that you have failed to use the SoC principle for what its worth.
I more or less feel the same thing about partial classes. If you have a piece of code you think is too big you need to chop it up in manageable (and reusable) parts, not hide or split it up.
It will bite you the next time someone needs to change it, and cannot see the logic hidden in a 250 line monster of a method.

Whenever you can, pull some code out of the main class, and into a helper or factory class.

foreach (var item in Items)
{
    //.. 100 lines of validation and data logic..
}

is not as readable as

foreach (var item in Items)
{
    if (ValidatorClass.Validate(item))
        RepositoryClass.Update(item);
}

My $0.02 anyways.

Answer 2

This was talked about on Coding Horror.

My personal belief is that is that they are useful, but like anything in excess can be too much.

I use it to order my code blocks into:
Enumerations
Declarations
Constructors
Methods
Event Handlers
Properties

Answer 3

Sometimes you might find yourself working on a team where #regions are encouraged or required. If you're like me and you can't stand messing around with folded code you can turn off outlining for C#:

1. Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Advanced Tab
2. Uncheck "Enter outlining mode when files open"