by Serge Baranovsky

The best and the biggest MS developer conference Microsoft PDC 2008 edition is just few days away. We, of course, wouldn't miss the great opportunity to meet and network with potentially 10000 developers.

This year we will be giving away free CodeIt.Right licenses for those who manage to spot me in the crowd and talk to me about your favorite CodeIt.Right feature, what you don't like about the product or help to prioritize the upcoming features. Or talk about what's important to you, what's on you mind, or just a geek talk.

To help you find me I will share that I'm attending Palermo Party Sunday night and hanging around most every party, event, session and between the sessions. You can follow me on Twitter , email me at sergeb@submain.com or call our toll free line 1 (800) 936-2134 and choose extension 3 - "Talk to Serge" (special PDC option :)

If you have never met in person, perhaps picture on my Twitter account - http://twitter.com/sergeb - will help you :)

Looking forward to meeting you all in LA next week!

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Right, Coding Guidelines, Naming Conventions, Best Practices, .NET, NET

by Serge Baranovsky

Earlier this week I attended VSX DevCon on Microsoft campus where I learned quite a bit about the changes coming to the upcoming version of Visual Studio (Dev10) and its Extensibility Model. This was very important for us to be abreast of the future Microsoft releases and stay ahead of the game with our products. I twittered some of the event.

It was fun conference too. I talked to many MS VSX folks, first time saw Rico Mariani talking (he is excellent!), met new people and old friends including Richard Hundhausen, Roy Osherove and Eli Lopian of TypeMock, discussed templating options (something to be included into future version of CodeIt.Right) with T4 guys.

While fun, food and snacks were a little different this time around. There was another conference across the hall and MS catering had naturally setup separate snack tables. Which I didn't really pay much attention to... So when VSX tables got low on snacks I was yelled at by a catering lady for trying to get something from the other conference table. I had a weird feeling of a kid being caught stealing cookies...

Well, the story next day made me feel a little better about my "cookie incident" :) It was mentioned already by Ken Levy via Twitter and Ted Neward on his blog - Steve Ballmer got scolded by catering for taking a cookie without VSIP badge... At least I wasn't the only one who got confused and yelled at ;)

Back to the business now. Me being out of the office for few days didn't affect the progress on v1.1 release of CodeIt.Right. In fact, it is finished, tested and will are releasing it tomorrow.

Stay tuned!

by Serge Baranovsky

As I mentioned earlier I presented CodeIt.Right in Portland at PADNUG last week. I had great time, thank you all guys and girls - you are wonderful and very friendly audience! I'm glad I got to know better some of you during the "informal" meeting at Gustav's after the presentation.

Few of you asked if the slides will be available, so I'm published PDF version of the slides on our community page - PADNUG CodeIt.Right Presentation Slides. If you need the PPT version - just drop me a note at the email address on the first page of the slides.

Thanks again, it was great visiting Portland!

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Right, Coding Guidelines, Naming Conventions, Best Practices, .NET, NET

by Serge Baranovsky

The v1.1 release that includes .NET 3.5 syntax has been slightly delayed. There are two reasons for that - we had too much fun at the MVP Summit mid-April and we made few significant changes to the parsing and refactoring engines to support the 3.5 syntax. The coding part is done, we cover all of the .NET 3.5 now. And we are going through a major testing phase as the base application layer responsible for all .NET versions was affected. We are currently targeting end of May for the v1.1 release date.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise Edition of CodeIt.Right is pretty much ready - we should have beta in a couple of weeks. Enterprise Edition has two parts - developer client and Profile Authoring/Admin piece. The latter, in addition to the Profile Editor features, has the ability to push profiles to developer workstations and limit developers to use only the profiles that were published by a Team Lead/Lead Developer/Architect.

Tutorials

We have published CodeIt.Right SDK Online Documentation and a couple of new tutorials:

• CodeIt.Right SDK Documentation
• Tutorial: Creating Custom Rules
  
• CodeItRight.Cmd.exe Command Line Options
  

All tutorials are now listed on the new dedicated Tutorials page.

Presentation

I will be speaking in Protland at PADNUG this Tuesday, May 6th at 6:30pm - more details here - http://www.padnug.org/padnug/meetings.aspx?ID=145

If you are in the area and want to hear about coding guidelines, best practices, ask questions and see a demo of CodeIt.Right, come join us. I will bring some swag for giveaway, free licenses and discount codes.

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Right, Coding Guidelines, Naming Conventions, Best Practices, .NET, NET

by Serge Baranovsky

Besides hosting traditional now vbCity and VB-INSIDERS get-together around MVP Summit this year we are also sponsoring the "Party With Palermo" on Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 7:00PM - 10:00PM - more details at http://www.partywithpalermo.com/

If you are in Seattle area that weekend, come join in - it'll be fun. There will be plenty great people to meet, free swag, free drinks and food.

Find me - you will get free software too (did I just say CodeIt.Right out loud? :)

by Serge Baranovsky

We obtained exclusive distribution rights to the latest version of Steve Sartain's C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines 100+ page ebook, and are offering free download from our website. From now on we will be maintaining the guidelines along with the author.

Topics covered in C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines include:

• Naming Guidelines
• Class Member Usage Guidelines
• Guidelines for Exposing Functionality to COM
• Error Raising & Handling Guidelines
• Array Usage Guidelines
• Operator Overloading Usage Guidelines
• Guidelines for Casting Types
• Common Design Patterns
• Callback Function Usage
• Time-Out Usage
• Security in Class Libraries
• Threading Design Guidelines
• Formatting Standards
• Commenting Code
• Code Reviews
• Additional Notes for VB .NET Developers

Here is what Andrew Sutton says about the ebook at vbCity: "Steve Sartain has come up with a very readable document that offers comprehensive guidelines for structuring code writing."

Better hurry up to download this excellent whitepaper on coding guidelines and best practices while supplies last! (Just kidding, our supplies of this electronic downloadable book are unlimited )

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Right, Coding Guidelines, Naming Conventions, Best Practices, .NET, NET

Today we launched the SubMain Community site. More about the site...

The old forums will be retired as we move their posts to this site.

There is one more exciting announcement coming out later today.

by Serge Baranovsky

We have earned Microsoft Certified Partner status for software we developed - PrettyCode.Print and CodeIt.Once. In addition to this honor, we have confirmed the Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency. The Certified Partner status provides us early insight into Microsoft development and strategies and helps improve our products even further. This will enable us to continue providing innovative tools, exceptional value, and highest level of support to our customers.

To achieve Certified Partner status, SubMain has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies, and met thorough evaluation standards of the Certified Partner program.

Microsoft Partner Program uses references from our customers to privately verify our real-world performance. We would like to thank our customers who completed the customer satisfaction survey as part of this effort. We would also like to say Thank You to all our customers for your support!