---
title: "Announcing Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/announcing-regex-kit-regular-expression-visualizers-for-vs-2.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/announcing-regex-kit-regular-expression-visualizers-for-vs-2.html"
published: "2005-11-26T15:32:00"
updated: "2005-11-26T15:32:00"
tags: [".Net 2.0", "Cool Tools", "Regex", "Team Agile News"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I've been hibernating with everything relating to regular expressions for quite sometime now. I'm still working on the Regulator 3.0 (built on .NET 2.0), but for now, I thought I'd release these: Regex Debug Visualizers…"
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/"
---

# Announcing Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005

By Roy Osherove November 26, 2005 In [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 26, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I've been hibernating with everything relating to regular expressions for quite sometime now. I'm still working on the Regulator 3.0 (built on .NET 2.0), but for now, I thought I'd release these:

[**Regex Debug Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005**](https://osherove.com/Articles/RegexKit.html)

Visual Studio allows creating "Debug Visualizers" for all types in .NET framework as well as custom types.
You can find such visualizers for Datasets, strings and XML. There wasn't one for Regular expressions, until now.
These visualizers allow you to "visualize" the following types:

System.String
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match
System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection

_Download_ [_Version 1.00_](http://teamagile.com/Downloads/TeamAgile.RegexKit10.zip) _(90k)_

_Read the_ [_installation and usage instructions_](https://osherove.com/Articles/RegexKitInstallation.html)

**Some Screenshots:**

This is the visualizer for a _MatchCollection_ object. Contains Syntax Highlighting,  hierarchical match view, input and regex options.

This is the 2nd tab located on the left side of the dialog. A verbal description of the pattern text. (By Eric Gunnerson)

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[All posts in .Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0)

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- Nov 30, 2005

    ### [Ask The Pros: Debugging Tips](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/30/ask-the-pros-debugging-tips.html)

- Nov 26, 2005

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- Nov 21, 2005

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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.

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