• Compatible with VS2010
  
• Support for VB - GhostDoc now has full support for VB
• Removed "Enable experimental support for VB" option in Settings.
  
• Improved product setup experience
  
• Single setup for all supported versions of Visual Studio - VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010.
  
• Setup will detect older version installed and automatically uninstall it.
  
• Converted from VS Add-In to VS Package
  
• Resolved installation issues related to the VS Add-In model - by converting to VS Package
  

• Compatible with VS2010
  
• C# 4.0 and VB10 syntax support
• Automatically Implemented Properties (VB.NET)
• Generic Variance (VB.NET)
  
• Multi-line lambda expressions that can contain statements (VB.NET)
• Implicit line continuation (VB.NET)
• Dynamic lookup (C#) - (the "dynamic" type)
• Named and Optional parameters (C#)
• Covariance and contravariance (C#)
  
• Added T4 template based rules
• Profile Editor supports editing and validation of T4 templates
• Rule "Externally visible types and members should have XML comments" has been rewritten as a template based rule and is customizable now
• Added Global Properties tab in Options - user configured properties to be used with the T4 templates
  
• Spell-checking rules
• Significantly improved performance, now suggested spellings lookup is only performed when the the Correction Options dropdown is clicked
  
• Spell-checking rules - improved performance when use a secondary (non-English) dictionary
• Spell-checking rules - renamed en_US.usr to complang.usr
• Further improved ASP.NET support - rename refactoring now also corrects the ASP.NET page HTML markup server tag IDs and attributes
  
• Context menus Check All, Clear All and Correct Checked are now context specific when clicked on file or project lines in the violations list
• Improved performance for Check All, Clear All, Exclude Rule and Exclude File 
• Analyze Project and Analyze File context menus in the violations list, see forum post 
• Analyze Folder and Analyze Project context menus in the Solution Explorer
• Synchronization of the file selected in the Solution Explorer with the violations list
  
• About dialog - added subscription expiration date
• Added "Don't show this exception again" checkbox to the unhandled exceptions dialog
• Default Encapsulate Field correction for rules "Do not declare externally visible instance fields" and "Secured types should not expose fields" changed from "Create new property and update all references where the field is use" to "Rename the field, create new property with the original field name and do not update the field references" (for the public name has not changed), see forum post
  
• Added new property ExcludeList to all Naming rules, see forum post 
• Added new RuleTargets - Solution, Project, File
  
• New Rules:
  
  1. Use constants where appropriate (Performance)
  2. Remove unused internal classes (Performance)
  3. Do not initialize unnecessarily (Performance)
  4. Source file name should be Pascal cased (General)
  5. Source file should contain only one public type (General)
  6. Source file name should match public type name (General)
  7. Enable Treat Compiler Warnings As Errors option (General)
  8. Enforce Warning Level 4 (General)
  9. Source file should have a header (General) - a T4 template based rule
     
• more bug fixes
  

• New feature - Spell Checker, we extended SDK with spell checking engine which enables us to add new rules. This build includes en-US, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, fr-FR, es-ES, es-MX dictionaries. You can add other languages using OpenOffice format dictionaries. We cannot distribute de-DE and it-IT dictionaries for they are GNU GPL licensed but you can download them from OpenOffice web site here as well as several dozen of other languages.
  
• Added - Out Of Memory error handling - shows dialog that links to the page with recommendations on How to avoid Out Of Memory exceptions in Visual Studio by enabling is to use up to 3GB of virtual memory
  
• Added - "Copy Violation" in the violation list allows to copy the highlighted violation information into clipboard. Alternatively use Ctrl+C.
  
• "Exclude File" violation list context menu option is now enabled when right-clicked on the file name row
  
• Added - Cache Folder Path option - allows to move CodeIt.Right cache directory (default - User\Application Data)
  
• New Rules:
  1. Identifiers Should Be Spelled Correctly (Spelling)
  2. Comments Should Be Spelled Correctly (Spelling)
  3. Type link demands require inheritance demands (Security)
  4. Secured types should not expose fields (Security)
  5. Secure serialization constructors (Security)
  6. Review visible event handlers (Security)
  7. Review deny and permit only usage (Security)
  8. Review declarative security on value types (Security)
  9. Method security should be a superset of type (Security)
  10. Array fields should not be read only (Security)
  11. Aptca methods should only call aptca methods (Security)
  12. Wrap vulnerable finally clauses in outer try (Security)
      
• CodeItRight.Cmd.exe changes:
  
  • returns negative codes for internal errors, 0 if no violations found and positive code equal to the number of violations found
  • see updated CodeItRight.Cmd.exe Command Line Options for details
    
• many bugs fixed

• Support for .NET 3.5 (C# 3.0 and VB 9.0)
• New feature - Generate Template in Profile Editor allows to generate guidelines document template based on the profile. Please note the XSL stylesheet only works with IE (not Firefox)
• New feature - Analyze File in the Solution Explorer context menu - enables individual source code file analysis
• New feature - Severity Threshold dropdown - allows to quickly filter violations by severity
• Improved Profile Editor layout
• Added "Rule Info" tab in Profile Editor
• Pivot View allows to save your custom views (Save As)
• Updated SDK documentation - now includes most every class, method and property of CodeIt.Right SDK. We will update the Online SDK documentation promptly.
• Auto-Update now also includes the latest help file
• New Options -> General -> Max violations to report (default Unlimited) to limit to the first N violations reported
• New Rules:
  1. Do not declare read only mutable reference types (Security)
  2. Seal methods that satisfy private interfaces (Security)
  3. Secure GetObjectData overrides (Security)
  4. Assemblies should declare minimum security (Security)
  5. Override link demands should be identical to base (Security)
  6. Prefix member calls with self (Usage)
  7. Do not prefix calls with Base unless needed (Usage)
  8. Review suppress unmanaged code security usage (Security)
  9. Do not indirectly expose methods with link demands (Security)
  10. Security transparent code should not assert (Security)
  11. Secure asserts (Security)
  12. Code region name should be PascalCased (Naming)
      
• CodeItRight.Cmd.exe improvements:
  • Added MsBuild and Nant tasks (SubMain.CodeItRight.MSBuild.dll and
    SubMain.CodeItRight.NAntBuild.dll)
  • Fixed /Quiet option
  • Added /OutXSL parameter
  • Added /CRData parameter
  • Added /severityThreshold parameter
  • Improved formatting of the output XML data file
  • Added return error codes
  • Removed key press required in the older version
  • see CodeItRight.Cmd.exe Command Line Options for details
    
• Removed Alt shortcuts in the toolbar - they were conflicting with some of the Visual Studio
• Renaming a parameter now also updates its name in XML comments
• Added CodeRegion class in the SDK
• Added "Expression" and "Code Region" to Rule targets
• many bugs fixed

A quick update - we've been a little quiet lately. That's because we are working on two updates - new version of PrettyCode.Print for .NET with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 support as well as CodeIt.Right v1.1 - beta available here - http://tinyurl.com/cir11-beta

PCP.NET will be available first week of September and CodeIt.Right v1.1 the following week.

Technorati Tags: CodeIt.Right, Coding Guidelines, Naming Conventions, Best Practices, .NET, NET

• Support for .NET 3.5 (C# 3.0 and VB 9.0)
• New feature - Generate Template in Profile Editor allows to generate guidelines document template based on the profile. Please note the XSL stylesheet only works with IE (not Firefox)
• Improved Profile Editor layout
• Added "Rule Info" tab in Profile Editor
• Pivot View allows to save your custom views (Save As)
• Updated SDK documentation - now includes most every class, method and property of CodeIt.Right SDK
• Auto-Update now also includes the latest help file
• New Options -> General -> Max violations to report (default 1000) to limit to the first N violations reported
• New Rules:
  1. Do not declare read only mutable reference types (Security)
  2. Seal methods that satisfy private interfaces (Security)
  3. Secure GetObjectData overrides (Security)
  4. Assemblies should declare minimum security (Security)
  5. Override link demands should be identical to base (Security)
  6. Prefix member calls with self (Usage)
  7. Do not prefix calls with Base unless needed (Usage)
     
• CodeItRight.Cmd.exe improvements:
  • Added MsBuild and Nant tasks (SubMain.CodeItRight.MSBuild.dll and
    SubMain.CodeItRight.NAntBuild.dll)
  • Fixed /Quiet option
  • Added /OutXSL parameter
  • Added /CRData parameter
  • Improved formatting of the output XML data file
  • Added return error codes
  • Removed key press required in the older version
  • see CodeItRight.Cmd.exe Command Line Options for details
    
• many bugs fixed