by Serge Baranovsky

CodeIt.Right is finally finished after about 3 years in the making. That's right, CodeIt.Right is Released! It is out in its all new shiny package :)

I would like to make a pause here and extend my deepest gratitude towards everyone who helped make this release possible. From the SubMain development team, the advisory board members, to everyone who participated in the community and contributed feedback over the year since we released the first public beta.

CodeIt.Right, my 7 years long dream come true. The tool it out! Cheers! (I truly believe that code analysis coupled with automatic refactoring will change the way .NET developer teams and solo developers work!)

With the touchy-feely stuff out of the way, let's get back to the actual product, shall we? :)

If you are new to CodeIt.Right:

• Download free 30 day Trial
• Read more about CodeIt.Right
• Get familiar with the tool - Quick Start, Introduction to CodeIt.Right Features, ISerializable Pattern - example
• Ask your Questions 
• And don't forget to Purchase CodeIt.Right as you are going to love it!

What's next?

This not a road map per se, just highlights of where we are heading with CodeIt.Right over the next months:

• We will keep publishing new rules as they are developed and will push them to you using the Auto-Update feature
• We will publish more tutorials and how tos on using the product and developing your own custom rules using CodeIt.Right SDK
• Create community section over at http://community.submain.com and allow custom developed rules shared with other users
• Version v1.1 is coming in 4-6 weeks - .NET 3.5 syntax, merging profiles, Pivot View improvements, generating team guidelines document template from profile, and of course, more rules!
• Version v2.0 is preliminarily scheduled for summer 2008 and will introduce VSTS integration and manual refactorings (we will merge CodeIt.Once into CodeIt.Right)

So, don't wait, go ahead, download CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/download/codeit.right - play with it, explore the rules included in the box, get out of the box and try developing your own custom rules, share them, ask questions, tell us what you think!

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

by Serge Baranovsky

This is a maintenance release of PrettyCode.Print for .NET and, for the most part, includes bug fixes - quite a few issues reported since the April 2007 update.

The update is free for current users.

Download at http://submain.com/download

Technorati Tags: PrettyCode.Print, PrettyCode, Visual Studio, .NET, NET

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

by Serge Baranovsky

As promised earlier this month we released PrettyCode.Print for .NET update - build 1.7.07111. This update addresses Vista and 64 bit OS compatibility, complete VB8.0 and C# 2.0 syntax, setup improvements and bug fixes.

This version is free for current PrettyCode.Print for .NET users.

Changes in build 1.7.07111

• ADDED: Vista and 64 bit OS compatibility 
• IMPROVED: Complete VB 8.0 and C# 2.0 syntax support
• IMPROVED: Setup detects older version and uninstalls if present 
• ADDED: New parameter for PrettyCode.Print.AddInRegistration.exe to recreate VS.NET toolbar and menu commands
• ADDED: Support for operators in VB and resolved number of related bugs
• FIXED: Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars error when installing PrettyCode.Print for VS2005
• Other bug fixes (over 30 in total)

Download at http://submain.com/download

Technorati Tags: PrettyCode.Print, PrettyCode, Visual Studio, .NET, NET

by Serge Baranovsky

It is my pleasure to announce the release of CodeIt.Once for .NET v1.0 - Add-In for Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005. We have been working hard and went through extensive Beta testing period to ensure we produce a high quality product.

First version of the product supports both VB.NET and C# and includes 14 refactoring operations:

• Rename
• Extract Method
• Encapsulate Field
• Extract Interface
• Promote Local Variable to Parameter
• Add Parameter
• Remove Parameters
• Reorder Parameters
• Method To Property
• Property To Method
• Introduce Constant
• Inline Variable
• Decompose Conditional
• Move Class

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Once, Refactoring, Visual Studio, .NET, NET

by Serge Baranovsky

We have released a new version of PrettyCode.Print for .NET v1.5 - support for VS2005, code regions, preprocess expressions and more..

PrettyCode.Print for .NET v1.5 is free update to our current PCP.NET v1 customers.

What's New in PCP.NET v1.5

We have listened to your feedback and have done a number of improvements to PCP.NET v1.

New Features in v1.5 (build 1.5.163):

• Support for Visual Studio 2005, VB 8.0 and C# 2.0.
• Added support for code regions - you can now filter your selection by regions
• Added support for preprocess expressions
• Persisting project selection info on reload/refresh and between sessions - will save you time when you print a project often
• Syntax highlighted snippet area in the project selection window - long time requested feature is here. Makes the code snippet look much nicer and easier to read too.
• Print Current Module feature (Add-In only) - loads selected file and preselects it - a quick way to print just one file. Available via "Print Current Module" right-click menu in VS Code Editor window or "Print Module" right-click menu in VS Solution Explorer.
• New "Declaration Text" font setting allows to define a subset of of attributes for namespace, class, method declaration lines, i.e. Public Class MyClass..End Class or Private Sub MySub..End Sub. For example, you can make them bold now.
• New "Number Of Lines" column in the Class Details grid for Methods and Fields.
• and many smaller improvements and bug fixes

Download VS2003 and VS2005 builds here - http://submain.com/download

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