Regionerate's Private Alpha release (v0.2) has been released for selected users today. It contains about 75% of the features that will be available for the final release. (v1.0) Regionerate's Private Beta is just around the corner and will contain all features of the final release. (documentation aside) Sign-up for the Private Beta today by contacting me at omer at rauchy dot net.
Regionerate is about to be deployed as Private Alpha at numerous locations. Private Alpha users help me by evaluating an early version of Regionerate at their free time. Private Alpha users are asked to play around with Regionerate in a dedicated environment and provide feedback regarding the experience. Private Beta is the next stage of deployment. The main difference between the Private Alpha and the Private Beta, besides providing a more stable version, is that Private Beta users will be asked to evaluate the way Regionerate helped them with their daily work - as individuals and as teams. I am currently recruiting applicants for the Private Beta, so if you are interested in being an early adopter by joining and helping me by evaluating Regionerate, please contact me at omer at rauchy dot net.
I have successfully (and quite easily) set up discussion boards using phpBB.You can access them through http://www.rauchy.net/regionerate/forums or by clicking "Discuss" on the sidebar.The Private Alpha forum is private to Private Alpha users only.The Private Beta and Public Beta are locked until the beginning of the appropriate cycle.The General Discussion is open for everyone.
Invited users: feel free to visit the development blog at blog.regionerate.net. This blog will become public when Regionerate will enter the Public Beta deployment stage.
Regionerate is an automated tool which helps you to preserve your code's layout over time.
Regionerate lets you define regions in your code and determine the way members (fields, methods, properties etc.) should be placed inside them.
Regionerate is a zero-friction tool - when setting up, you can choose a Code Layout (the way you want your code to look) or just use the default Code Layout. From that moment on, Regionerate will make sure your code follows that Code Layout.
You can download Code Layouts from the Gallery or you can easily create a Code Layout yourself. Code Layouts are XML files which follow the Code Layout schema. These files determine which regions you want to create, which types of members you want to place in them, the restrictions you want on these members, their order and more.
You can Regionerate a class by a single click from within your Visual Studio or you can Regionerate your entire code by integrating it to your build machine.
Not feeling comfortable with the default Code Layout? You can browse for different Code Layouts here, offer your own Code Layouts and vote for the Code Layout that will ship with Regionerate v1.0.
If you want to submit your own Code Layouts, send'em over to omer at rauchy dot net.
Want to learn how to create your own Code Layout? Here's how to get started.
Contribute
I'm currently looking for good people to help me with the remaining development tasks for Regionerate v1.0. If you like Regionerate and want to be a part of it, contact me at omer at rauchy dot net.