---
title: "The Regulator is BACK!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/25/the-regulator-is-back.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/25/the-regulator-is-back.html"
published: "2003-10-25T04:40:00"
updated: "2003-10-25T04:40:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Thanks to a donation by SyncFusion , we've got ourselves a brand new, non GPL edit control, thus allowing me to re-distribute The Regulator without worries. Thanks, Syncfusion . You made my day :) This is how it looks,…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The Regulator is BACK!

By Roy Osherove October 25, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Thanks to a donation by [SyncFusion](http://www.syncfusion.com/), we've got ourselves a brand new, non GPL edit control, thus allowing me to re-distribute [The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator/) without worries. Thanks, [Syncfusion](http://www.syncfusion.com/). You made my day :)

[This](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator/) is how it looks, and [this](http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/reg) is where you can download it.

Have fun, be productive,

and [tell me the features you'd like to see most](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=157606)!

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Regulator Coming along nicely](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/regulator-coming-along-nicely.html)

- Oct 26, 2003

    ### [.NET development - Extra tools?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/26/net-development-extra-tools.html)

- Oct 23, 2003

    ### [\[Tool\] Introducing The Regulator - advanced regex tool](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/23/tool-introducing-the-regulator-advanced-regex-tool.html)

- Oct 8, 2003

    ### [Why I like SharpReader better](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/8/why-i-like-sharpreader-better.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/