--- title: "The Regulator 2.0 is out" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/10/the-regulator-20-is-out.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/10/the-regulator-20-is-out.html" published: "2004-04-10T14:45:00" updated: "2004-04-10T14:45:00" tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Tools"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "It's just a beta , and most of the documentation will only be available on the wiki in the coming future, but: -added: installer -added: generate C# or vb.net code from regex(via tools menu) -added: regex Analyzer.…" 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 2.0 is out By Roy Osherove April 10, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) **Historical article** · Originally published April 10, 2004; technical details may be outdated. [It's just a beta](http://sourceforge.net/projects/regulator/), and most of the documentation will only be available on the [wiki](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/flexwiki/default.aspx/Regulator.HomePage) in the coming future, but: \-added: installer \-added: generate C# or vb.net code from regex(via tools menu) \-added: regex Analyzer. Describes in plain language the regular expression(via view menu) \-added: Compile to Assembly. Compiles the current regex into a dll. (via tools menu) \-added: The Regulator can now accept a file name of type ".express" as a command line argument to open with \-added: file association for ".express" files. Double clicking on an express file will launch a new instance of The Regulator with the document open. \-added:  ability to specify a web address in the input file text area   must be preceded with http/ftp prefixes. \-added: pressing "Enter" when writing an input file name/web will automatically refresh from that file(no need to click the refresh icon) \-added: plugin creation ability  - Plugins are divided into two kinds: dialogs and dockable.   -dialogs are accesible via the "Tools" menu   -Dockable plugins are acceisible via the "view" menu  Included plugins(with source):  - Plugin lister. will show all the currently loaded plugins.  - CodeWriter. Generates C# or VB.NET code from the regular expression  - Regex Analyzer. Describes in plain language the regular expression  - Compile to Assembly. Compiles the current regex into a dll.  - Snippets. same as in original version only as plugin  - Regexlib.com search. same as in original version only as plugin  - Regexlib.com submit. same as in original version only as plugin \-removed: performance tab \-changed: icons and links in the main form \-fixed: Regex options toolbar bug fixed where unchecking one of the options would remove all the other options as well (darn bit masking) \-fixed: closing a single document did not prompt a "save before close" dialog if document was changed and not saved. \-fixed: various problems related to inaccurate relative file paths (snippets loading and saving not working correctly for example) \-fixed: importing a regular expression from web search now correctly places input segments into separate input rows (Replacing "|||" with new lines) ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Apr 14, 2004 ### [Connection pools and a DAAB v. 3 mystery](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/14/connection-pools-and-a-daab-v-3-mystery.html) - Apr 11, 2004 ### [DotNet vs. Smalltalk](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/11/dotnet-vs-smalltalk.html) - Apr 5, 2004 ### [The next Regulator is gonna rock (with your help)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/the-next-regulator-is-gonna-rock-with-your-help.html) - Apr 3, 2004 ### [Another book of the month, and what's up with ApplicationException?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/3/another-book-of-the-month-and-whats-up-with-applicationexcep.html) --- ## 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). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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