--- title: "Full source for The Regulator released" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/7/full-source-for-the-regulator-released.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/7/full-source-for-the-regulator-released.html" published: "2005-01-07T23:56:00" updated: "2005-01-07T23:56:00" tags: [".Net Original", "Regex"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I finally got around to release the full source code for The Regulator . Up until now the source code was partial and included mostly just the plugins for it. Now you get to see what a sloppy coder I really was when I…" 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/" --- # Full source for The Regulator released By Roy Osherove January 7, 2005 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex) **Historical article** · Originally published January 7, 2005; technical details may be outdated. I finally got around to release [the full source code](http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/regulator/Regulator203_Src.zip?download) for [The Regulator](http://regulator.sf.net/). Up until now the source code was partial and included mostly just the plugins for it. Now you get to see what a sloppy coder I really was when I dreamed up this thing, and the stages I took from making it from a simple GUI  to a pluggable architecture of GUI and logical plugins. There's lots of code there that I would do differently today. for example, the whole threading thing in the GUI I would change to use the [BackgroudWorker](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/BackgroundWorker.aspx) that Juval Lowy wrote. Many more things like that. In any case, have fun mocking me :) Note that I use a lot of 3rd party libraries such as [ComponentOne's](http://www.xtras.net/products/componentonemenusandtoolbarsfordotnet.asp) Toolbars and [Syncfusion's](http://www.syncfusion.com/) Edit control. You'll need those to be able to compile. (C1's components were free as part of the [VB resource kit](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2003/10/02/30109.aspx) you can download. [SyncFusion](http://www.syncfusion.com/) donated their control. it's not free.) I'm trying to find time to make a new version. Hope that'll happen soon. Why did I decide to release it now? mainly because I got an angry email from one of the SourceForge.Net admins asking whether what a complaint from an end-user to the site is true; that  the project was released without source code. I explained that it comes with \*partial\* source, but if that's what's going to make them happy, I'll add the source now. Since I was planning to anyway, Just didn't feel very confident about the way the code looks, this wasn't an issue.  In fact, I welcome this catalyst as an opportunity to give more to the community. Sorry it took so long in the first place. ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Jan 8, 2005 ### [\[Article\] Defensive event publishing in .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/8/article-defensive-event-publishing-in-net.html) - Jan 8, 2005 ### [Making ClickOnce publishing work in VS.Net 2005 Beta 1+](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/8/making-clickonce-publishing-work-in-vsnet-2005-beta-1.html) - Jan 7, 2005 ### [Using Regex to return the first N words in a string](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/7/using-regex-to-return-the-first-n-words-in-a-string.html) - Jan 6, 2005 ### [Return of the Extensibility Application Block](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/6/return-of-the-extensibility-application-block.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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