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Visual Studio 2010 Officially Supported

rauchy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:18:20 +0000

Following Visual Studio 2010’s release earlier this week, I am happy to announce that Regionerate now officially supports Visual Studio 2010.

If you used the glorious workaround, you can remove it.

As a side note, v0.7.3.0 is now the latest stable release, so if you are still using v0.7.0.0, I suggest you upgrade to the latest, as it fixes a lot of bugs (If you want to know which bugs, take a look at TRAC tickets closed in 0.7.3.0)

Enjoy!

ASP.NET MVC Controller Code Layout

rauchy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:38:17 +0000

I’ve created a code layout for ASP.NET MVC Controllers.

I think that the first thing you will look in a controller is its actions, so this code layout just puts them first, then organizes the rest.

The actions are ordered by name (which would be the fastest way to locate an action), then by ascending parameter count (Useful since usually you would have a action called Edit without any parameters, that would show the Edit view, and then an Edit action with parameters, which will accept the form data)

To add this code layout to your code layout browser, just download this and decompress it to “%programfiles%\Regionerate\My Code Layouts\Class Styles”.

When you hit Regionerate This, you should see it in the code layout browser:

ASP.NET MVC Controller Code Layout

Try it out, let me know what you think. (I’m just waiting for some input from you guys before adding it into the installation)

Download ASP.NET MVC Controller Code Layout (first draft)

HOWTO: Get Regionerate to Run on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

rauchy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:08:02 +0000

Update: Visual Studio 2010 is now officially supported. There is no need to use this workaround.

I really hoped to get Regionerate running quickly on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

Unfortunately, since there are several breaking changes with Visual Studio 2010’s extensibility model, I found myself messing around with it too much.

I’m not giving up, but I just need to clear an afternoon for it. Meanwhile, Since I’ve been getting a whole bunch of requests for quick support for 2010, here’s a quick workaround:

Go to “%programfiles%\Regionerate”.
Make a copy of “Regionerate.VS2005.AddIn” and call it “Regionerate.VS2010.AddIn“.
Open it with notepad, change Extensibility/HostApplication/Version to 10.0 and save the file.
Open up regedit.exe.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual Studio\10.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders.
Add a string key named “C:\Program Files\Regionerate\” (or wherever you had Regionerate installed)
Start Visual Studio 2010 and go to Tools/Regionerate Settings.
Turn off Automatically collapse regions after Regionerating. (Yes, they won’t collapse until I fix it)

Update: Thanks for Mr. Bungle for reminding me to add step 4-6. Mike Patton enthusiasts FTW!

Add your comments here if you have any problems using this workaround.

Where do you use attributes the most?

rauchy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:03:57 +0000

There’s a performance issue regarding multiple attributes on properties, and instead of solving this, we can just easily shift this performance problem to methods, where people supposedly use less attributes. Yeah, I know, pretty lame solution, but its fast!

I was wondering where people use attributes the most, so I will appreciate it if you could answer this short poll.

Support for MS-Test

rauchy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:46:23 +0000

Eeek. I had to write a bunch of unit tests with MS-Test yesterday.

I found out that the Unit Test class style only supports NUnit & MbUnit style fixtures (TestFixture, Test attributes etc.) and does not support the MS-Unit attributes.

Anyway, there is an updated version in the trunk. Should be available on the nightly build.

Some Thoughts on Versioning (And v0.7.3.0)

rauchy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:44:56 +0000

I have just updated the assembly and code layout schema versions to v0.7.3.0 (which will be the next major release), so if you are using the nightly build, make sure you update your custom code layouts to point to v0.7.3.0. I have made this version change since the v0.7.3.0 schema includes the ability to choose between tabs and spaces.

This means that if you choose to install the nightly build now, the installation will be titled “Regionerate Public Beta 2 (v0.7.3.0)”.

This seems a bit messy, in my opinion, as users might get confused and think that the nightly build is actually v0.7.3.0.

Do you have any suggestions on how to make this process more organized?

Tabs & Spaces

rauchy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:13:45 +0000

Seems like StyleCop wants regions to be indented by spaces, and not tabs. I got this request from like 12 different users, and barryd was kind enough to do the work for me.

It took me about 4 months to commit the patch, sorry guys

You can now choose between tabs or spaces as your indentation character. This should be available in the next release (v0.7.3.0), but is already available in the trunk and nightly build.

Did I mention I really love the fact that now, whenever code is committed, it can be immediately downloaded and installed?