--- title: "The Regulator featured on MSDN Magazine, and some version updates coming" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/18/the-regulator-featured-on-msdn-magazine-and-some-version-upd.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/18/the-regulator-featured-on-msdn-magazine-and-some-version-upd.html" published: "2004-06-18T21:00:00" updated: "2004-06-18T21:00:00" tags: ["Cool Articles"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "MSDN Magazine has an article by James Avery called : Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now . I was very flattered to learn that my little adventure into regular expressions, The Regulator , is named in…" 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 featured on MSDN Magazine, and some version updates coming By Roy Osherove June 18, 2004 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles) **Historical article** · Originally published June 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated. MSDN Magazine has an article by [James Avery](http://www.dotavery.com/blog) called : [Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/MustHaveTools/default.aspx). I was very flattered to learn that my little adventure into regular expressions,[The Regulator](http://regulator.sourceforge.net/),  is named in that respectable list (although the screen shot is totally out of date...) **Thanks for the Kudos**. I appreciate it. Other than The Regulator there are some must-explore tools you will probably need at one point or another, or even on a daily basis. Be sure to check it out. A few updates on the state of the current version: - There's a really stupid problem with the Installer for the .net 1.0 version of the tool: It requires .Net 1.1 to run :) My bad - I totally messed up and forgot to change the required runtime setting for the setup project. - If you're running in Non-Admin mode - you'll crash when trying to close it or save a file. I'm working on it to save settings into an IsolatedStorage file, but to make it write a file you'll have to make it trusted anyway. - Intellisense still sucks, mostly because the Awesome Edit control donated by Syncfusion is a little lacking in this area. I'll make it work somehow. For now you can disable Intellisense via the general settings dialog. I'll work on all these issues in the soon coming new version. Got anymore stuff that bothers you about The Regulator? Say it loud and proud in the comments section. Speaking of which, how's the help file? are you happy with it? Does it need more work? Is it actually useful? ## More in Cool Articles [All posts in Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles) - Aug 5, 2004 ### [Paper: Developing Identity-Aware ASP.NET Applications](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/5/paper-developing-identity-aware-aspnet-applications.html) - Jul 17, 2004 ### [Omer is doing some serious blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/17/omer-is-doing-some-serious-blogging.html) - Jun 11, 2004 ### [Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/11/add-support-for-quotsetquot-collections-to-net.html) - Jun 4, 2004 ### [Wintellect Web-exclusive articles](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/4/wintellect-web-exclusive-articles.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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