If you wanna help out and test drive it, please e-mail me with your specs (OS, IDE version, service pack, .NET framework version) and I’ll send you a link to download Regionerate Beta 2.

I really want to release v0.7 by AltNetConf Israel, which is happening this Thursday, so no sleep pour moi.

Wish me luck.

Update: [Thursday] Unfortunately, there is no chance I’ll be finishing this today I forgot what it means to release a version. It’ll take me a few more days.

Now you can use multiple tags in the OrderBy statements, for example:

   1:  <PutMethods>

   2:      <OrderBy>

   3:          <Name />

   4:          <ParametersCount />

   5:      </OrderBy>

   6:  </PutMethods>

will place all methods, will order them by name and then will sub-order them by the number of parameters in the method.

Meaning that this piece of code:

   1:      interface IGateway

   2:      {

   3:          void Initialize(Configuration configuration);

   4:          void Finalize(string connectionString, string username, string password);

   5:          void Initialize(string connectionString, string username, string password);

   6:          void Finalize();

   7:          void Initialize();

   8:      }

will turn into:

   1:      interface IGateway

   2:      {

   3:   

   4:          #region Operations (5) 

   5:   

   6:          void Finalize();

   7:   

   8:          void Finalize(string connectionString, string username, string password);

   9:   

  10:          void Initialize();

  11:   

  12:          void Initialize(Configuration configuration);

  13:   

  14:          void Initialize(string connectionString, string username, string password);

  15:   

  16:          #endregion Operations 

  17:   

  18:      }

The good ol’ ForEachClass statement had to be modified a bit (yes, that means you must change your Code Layouts) to allow this.

From now on, use the new ForEach statement and specify the type you want to apply layout to.

For example:

   1:  <ForEach Type="Class">

   2:  …

   3:  </ForEach>

   4:  <ForEach Type="Struct">

   5:  …

   6:  </ForEach>

   7:  <ForEach Type="Interface">

   8:  …

   9:  </ForEach>

This will be available on v0.7, but you can grab the code, compile and use it right now.

Over the past 6 months I got a lot of feature requests by e-mail, and I would like to thank everybody for sending great ideas.

Since releasing a version can be a long procedure, I would like to change my release habits with Regionerate and stop releasing versions for bug fixes. Now that the source code is freely available at Assembla, bug fixes can be obtained by getting the source code and compiling.

I will release a new version for new features only, and of course, those releases will include all the bug fixes that were committed until the release date.

v0.7 is coming up with a couple of new features and a couple of bug fixes.

Thank you all for your patience and kind words over the last months.

Since this was done manually, I migrated the open tickets, leaving the closed bugs back in the old system, hoping they will not come back to haunt us.

You can now view them in the Trac system.

Hope this doesn’t cause any problems for anyone. Let me know if you need a Visual Studio 2005 duplicate.

These Code Layouts are not designated to be primary Code Layouts, but are very useful when trying to standardize the usage of a framework or a certain coding style.

I’ve been getting great feedback regarding Contract First, NUnit Test Fixture and the POCO layout and want this to be appealing to more people by shipping more specific Code Layouts.

Can you think of frameworks this might be suitable for?

When you hit Ctrl+R (or whatever you had your shortcut set to), the active document is Regionerated. But if you hit Ctrl+R and keep the Ctrl button down, you will be presented with the Code Layout Browser.

The Code Layout Browser is similar to the Alt+Tab window browser in Microsoft Windows. It allows you to choose which Code Layout to apply on your code.

You can browse through the different Code Layouts using the shortcut key (typically “R”) while holding down the modifier key (typically Ctrl), similar to Alt-Tab.

The first item is always the Primary Code Layout (the one you chose in the settings form, be it the standard Code Layout or your own custom Code Layout). The first item is the most accessible item and is the one selected when hitting Ctrl+R without browsing.

The rest of the items are gathered from the “My Code Layouts” directory under your installation folder.

A relatively easy workaround was to ignore #if-#endif blocks and keep their members the same. I believe this will do for most cases.