Solution Widgets of Visual Smarter

In case people not aware of those various nice Solution Widgets of Visual Smarter yet, here is a big picture:

As can be seen, there are many solution widgets provided by Visual Smarter. The visible on the screenshot is only partial of the whole list. There are a lot more and nicer ones, which can be found by scrolling up and down. Please give Visual Smarter a try and enjoy all of the widgets, not only about Visual Studio solutions but also projects, classes, documents, editors and a lot more.

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Project Widgets of Visual Smarter

In case readers not aware of the Project Widgets of Visual Smarter yet, here is a big picture for ideas:

The shown widgets in the screenshot is only partial of those.

Class Widgets of Visual Smarter

Visual Smarter has already provided about half hundred class widgets. In case readers not aware of them yet, here is a big picture:

As can be seen, the visible widgets on the screenshot are only a part of the list. It can be scrolled up and down. In addition, the number is going to be up and up in the future.

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The new Registry Class Cleaner of Visaul Smarter

As said earlier, the last build of Visual Smarter has an enhanced Registry Class Cleaner.

The new Registry Class Cleaner has the x32(x86) and x64 options added:

 The found class key rows now has a x64 indicator column added as well:

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Visual Smarter has been released a new build #0.9.9.2

Visual Smarter has been released a new build #0.9.9.2.

The Registry Class Cleaner common widget is enhanced in this build. The x86(x32) and x64 registry keys are all supported now. Two more nice Solution Widgets are added along into this build:

• Solution Widgets

o   Copy References Between Projects

o   Remove References From Projects

           

More will be coming. Enjoy!

DTEDict of Visual Smarter

If readers are not aware of the DTEDict of Visual Smarter yet, here is what it looks:

As can be seen, it lists out all the information abut the Visual Studio IDE. For many items, the DTEDict display them in a nicer and more meaningful way to help understand their properties.

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Check All & Uncheck All of Source Pack & Go of Visual Smarter

If readers haven't used the Source Pack & Go of Visual Smarter yet, please give it a try and see how good it is. Now let's look at two small but still wonderful features of the tool.

Two small buttons stay at the corner of the solution projects/folders which can check all of them or uncheck them with a single click:

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Result of Source Pack 'n Go of Visual Smarter

The result of Source Pack 'n Go of Visual Smarter looks pretty simple. It's a ZIP file in the location as specified in the options:

In fact, the tool provides much more than that. If the solution has many projects scattered around in many different folders or even drives, please don't worry. All of them will be found and zipped into the single package. Even for those external file links, the Source Pack 'n Go widget will take care of them all well enough. The ZIP file has a good folder structure to keep all those good information.

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Registry Class Cleaner of Visual Smarter and wow6432node

The Registry Class Cleaner currently does not supports for the wow6432node. It indicates that the 32 bit registry class keys cannot be searched and cleaned up by the current build.

We will enhance it in the future. Please stay tuned.

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Registry Class Cleaner of Visual Smarter

As posted earlier, the latest Visual Smarter build provided a new common widget, Registry Class Cleaner. It can be very useful in case some registry keys are left accidentally by some software during uninstallations or when debugging and users want to clean them up.

 As can be seen from the screenshots, the Options page help specify what registry key categories to examine, what to search, and how to treat the results. The RegKeys page lists out all the found class registry keys. If the registry keys are not of concern, they can be taken off from the clean list by clicking the button 'Take If Off'. After the Clean button is pressed and the cleaning operation is confirmed in a message box, the Result window will be activated and show what have been cleaned (removed) or else handled. Last, the results can be saved as a text file.

It is strongly recommended that the whole registry being backed up before cleaning anything up. This is also clearly warned in the confirmation message box.

Visual Smarter Build #0.9.9.0 Has Been Posted

Visual Smarter has been released a new build #0.9.9.0.

The Registry Class Cleaner common widget is provided, and two more nice Project Widgets have been added into this build:

• Project Widgets

o   List Bad References

o   Remove Bad References

           

More will be coming. Enjoy!

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Go with Output of Source Pack & Go of Visual Smarter

Source Pack & Go of Visual Smarter has a few ways to dispatch the packages. One is to send the zipped package through email. In case Outlook is installed and set the default email client, a similar window to the following would be opened up if the Send with Email button is pressed:

As can be seen, the Subject and Body of the email have been properly filled out. In addition, the zipped package has been attached to the email.

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Go Details of Source Pack 'n Go in Visual Smarter

In case users haven't tried the Source Pack 'n Go of Visual Smarter, here is the Go Details UI of the widget
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As can be seen, it can go to a default place. After the source successfully packed up, the folder can be opened in Windows Explorer or the ZIP package be opened instead. Of course, the package can be left there without any auto-opening.

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How to Pack in Source Pack 'N Go of Visual Smarter

The Source Pack 'N Go main UI was presented a while back. It has many other settings not introduced yet. The following How to Pack is one of them:

As can be seen, users can manage the packing behavior in many ways, saving solution changes first or  not, cleaning up the solution before packing, overwriting packages with the same name if any, or packing with a password. In addition, the package names can be in different ways as well, using the exact solution name, using the solution name with an auto-increment number, or using the solution name with a time stamp. It also supports auto-packing based on a time internal.

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What can AssmblyInfo Updater of Visual Smarter Import?

In case readers haven't tried the Export and Import feature of the AssemblyInfo Updater of Visual Smarter, the following dialog shows what can be imported into the AssemblyInfo Updater fields:

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Visual Smarter has been released a new build #0.9.9.8

Visual Smarter has been released a new build #0.9.9.8.

Some more nice and cool widgets have been added into this build:

• Solution Widgets

o   List Bad References

o   Remove Bad References

o   List Files of Pattern

o   List References to Projects Instead of Asssemblies

           

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SourceHeader Updater of Visual Smarter

In case readers have not tried the SourceHeader Updater of Visual Smarter, it may be worth of. It looks like the following:

As can be seen, it has quite some header information that can be put at the top of each source file, e.g. Project Name, Source File, Description, Copyright, Author, Email, Date, and revision History.

The tool can exclude some automatic files that are generated by Visual Studio or the AssemblyInfo file. In the single dialog, all available files in the current project can be navigated one by one. More and better, all headers can be cleaned up with a single click, if really necessary; or the current can be cleared, removed, or updated with the right button.

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Hidden Features of AssemblyInfo Updater of Visual Smarter

The AssemblyInfo Updater of Visual Smarter has some hidden features. If pressing the right button of the mouse, a context menu will popup. In it, there are two commands, Export and Import.

It indicates that all the AssemblyInfo can be exported to an external file, or be imported from such a file from outside.

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AssemblyInfo Updater of Visual Smarter

The AssemblyInfo Updater is another nice widget that readers may find useful in project and version managements:

As can be seen, it displays all the assembly information in a nice dialog and collects all such info of all assemblies/projects in the current solution for people to navigate, review, and update.

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Assembly Versioner Widget of Visual Smarter

The Assembly Versioner widget of Visual Smarter looks like the following:















As can be seen, all the assembly version information including both the Assembly Version and the File Version will all be collected by the widget. We can review the versions of each assembly one by one and update them if necessary with the navigation buttons.Or we can simply input the Assembly and File Versions once and apply them to all the projects and assemblies with the big button.

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Some Gadgets Have Been Fixed Bugs Or Enhanced Too

Besides the new widgets and the enhancements to the Solution Auto-Cloner utility, some other widgets have been bug fixed or refined as well. The Remove Project References and the Add Project References in the  Solution Widget Category are among them.

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Some Widgets Have Been Greatly Enhanced in The New Build #0.9.9.7 of Visual Smarter

Besides the following new widgets:

Project Widgets

o   Turn ON ComInterop

o   Turn OFF ComInterop

   o   Turn ON Reference EmbedInteropType

o   Turn OFF Reference EmbedInteropType

o   List LINK Files

o   List Files of Kind

o   List Files of Pattern

o   List Duplicate File Names

         some have also been greatly enhanced. The Solution Auto-Cloner is among them.

As can be seen from the UI,  one more option, 'Update affected project references', has been added in. It's pretty important since some projects may be very likely be referenced by some other projects in the same solution. Apart from the new option, many project types are well covered by the widget, including but not limited to C#, VB.NET, C++/CLI, and WIX.

By the way, the tool will not change anything in the original solution or projects. Everything is done to the solution/project clones. So, please don't hesitate to give it a try. Enjoy!

           

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