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The Forum is the heart of the PlanetChili.net community. This is the best place to ask for help with the tutorials, connect with like-minded programmers and bounce ideas, or just generally shitpost. If you want to talk to and receive a reply from the Chili himself, your best bet is on the Forums.
How to Ask for Coding Help
Whenever possible, always attach your complete Visual Studio solution with any request for help. Asking someone to debug your code without giving them the code so that they can run the debugger on it is simply not the done thing. The solution folder should be cleaned and zipped before posting it.
Cleaning a Solution
Visual Studio maintains a bunch of cached data in the solution folder that pushes the total size to 50 MB or more, and that shit is gonna clog up the website. What you need to do is delete those files before you zip the folder.
A properly cleaned solution (without any large files like audio) should definitely be less than 500 kb in size. The following files and folders should be deleted (some of them will be hidden, so you need to change your windows settings to show hidden files and folders):
- engine\debug\
- engine\release\
- engine\x64\
- engine\*.shh
- engine\resource.aps
- .git\
- debug\
- release\
- x64\
- .gitattributes\
- .gitignore\
- "chili framework 2016.vc.db"
If you are using source control (git), make sure you make a copy of the solution folder before deleting these files, as you will lose your git repo if you do not operate on a copy.
If the above seems like a pain in the ass, there is an easier solution. Just copy your solution folder, run this batch file inside the solution folder, and then zip it up. Easy peezy.
