---
title: "The Regulator gains popularity"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/19/the-regulator-gains-popularity.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/19/the-regulator-gains-popularity.html"
published: "2004-05-19T19:06:00"
updated: "2004-05-19T19:06:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "When Clemens Vasters was here for the Israel Tech-Ed 2004, he gave some great presentations (which I really should write here some of the notes I've written about them). Other than that I managed to grab him for a…"
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/"
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# The Regulator gains popularity

By Roy Osherove May 19, 2004 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

When [Clemens Vasters](http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/) was here for the Israel Tech-Ed 2004, he gave some great presentations (which I really should write here some of the notes I've written about them). Other than that I managed  to grab him for a little chat and also got a chance to show him The Regulator. 

[He really liked it](http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f0a763b9-2e24-44be-9245-b615e1057407).

I'm flattered.

One complaint I seem to be getting with the latest beta is about the intellisense. It is a bit too aggressive and I still need to round out some corners with that feature. I'll try to get a version out asap to fix this. in the meanwhile if you want to disable intellisense, just open the file quickmenu.config in the program dir and remove all the nodes for “MenuItem”. The intellisense looks at the first char of the “value” attribute in each node to see if it needs to be brought up. By removing the items you remove the intellisense.

## More in Cool Tools

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

- Jun 4, 2004

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- May 29, 2004

    ### [\[Cool Tool\] Dataset Quick Watch "visualizer" Add-in for VS.Net 2003](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/cool-tool-dataset-quick-watch-quotvisualizerquot-add-in-for.html)

- May 8, 2004

    ### [Numega DevPartner Profiler - free community edition](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/8/numega-devpartner-profiler-free-community-edition.html)

- May 1, 2004

    ### [New version for NUnit Add-in](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/1/new-version-for-nunit-add-in.html)


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