Archive for October 9th, 2008

Superior Localization and Coding for Visual Studio Users

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
RGreatEx 1.1.18 - a small plug-in for JetBrain ReSharper - makes it incredibly simple to add localization support to .NET applications, improves coding abilities and helps to produce safer code.
Localize your .NET application without hassles

Localize your .NET application without hassles

SafeDevelop today announces the immediate availability of RGreatEx 1.1.18, the newest version of its productivity plug-in for JetBrain ReSharper. By introducing a set of new refactorings to Visual Studio, RGreatEx offers the developer the easiest way to add localization support to a .NET project. RGreatEx also has other features for improving coding abilities and producing safer code.

RGreatEx is a powerful addition to the arsenal of any developer who relies on Visual Studio and its plug-in - JetBrain ReSharper - to write applications. Once installed, RGreatEx lets you take advantage of a host of time-saving refactorings, such as “Move to resource” and “Rename resource”. They can help to add localization to an application, much faster and easier than before. The tool can automatically analyze string and resource usage and suggest moving strings to resources. The new refactorings and automation options eliminate the need to re-write the entire project code for localization purposes, so the developer can save up to 95% of development time.

Adding localization support couldn’t be simpler. Just select a string and choose “Move string to resource” from the quick fixes, select a resource file where you want to extract and refactoring settings. Then you copy your resource file to a resource file for localization - for instance if you have Resources.resx you need to make a copy with the name - Resources.xx-xx.resx (where xx-xx - is your specific culture). The final step is to translate values in Resources.xx-xx.resx to the needed ones by using the Translate resource quick fix.

RGreatEx can serve as a coding helper too. It provides many new context actions to let the developer manipulate strings on the fly and produce safer resx code. RGreatEx lets you select strings from a file, folder, or a project, choose a resource file and keys for the selected strings and move them to resources - all in one go! Other useful options include highlighting options for quick string manipulation, plus “Go to resource” entry option to quickly jump from code to the resource value. These features improve the efficiency of coding considerably.

RGreatEx tightly integrates with Visual Studio, allowing the developer to maintain and enhance code without flaws. Supported programming languages are C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

New to version 1.1.18 are major bug fixes and minor UI enhancements.

Available now, RGreatEx costs 35 Euro. A free 14-day evaluation version is available for free.
Read more at http://safedevelop.com/Products/RGreatEx/.

Get A Glimpse Into Spookytacular Future

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Most everyone wished he had a time machine to travel in time and see what he would look like in 20 years from now. With Luxand’s new aging software, that’s exactly what users will be able to do.

Luxand Inc. today announces Prophecy Master 1.0, an age morphing computer program that allows anyone to see what they would look like when they grow old.

Today there are many photo-retouching utilities out there that can be used to make us look prettier, sexier, and younger. But none of them are designed to age us. Until now. Luxand has come out with an intriguing software utility called Prophecy Master, which uses the newest face recognition technology to accomplish the transformation from beautiful to unattractive and old in just a second. The technology detects and analyzes the face on the photo, and applies sophisticated mathematical transformations to generate a face of an aging person with the wrinkles, age spots, puffy eyes and other signs of age that a person would acquire in 20-30 years from now.

When the user loads a photo, that’s when Prophecy Master does its truly magic job. The source photo should clearly show the person’s face. The user makes a few image manipulations - pans, zooms, and rotates the photo in the image viewing window to get a full frontal view of the face. After these adjustments, the user clicks the button, and Luxand’s “time machine” goes to work - it brings the face to future in a matter of nanoseconds. The result looks hysterically fun to watch and takes some time to get over the Gee-Whiz factor. When the user gets over it, he can save the photo to a file, or email it to someone he wants to share it with to have fun together.

Prophecy Master is a magic “time machine” that may offer the user a glimpse into the future. It can also make a fun toy to play with. When the user loads a photo of the irritating boss, or ex-partner into the program, the mischievous prankster lurking somewhere deep inside is going to be very, very happy.

For more information about the product or to download its free trial, visit http://www.luxand.com/prophecymaster/.

Automate Code Inspections In Visual Studio To Produce Safer Code

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A new productivity plug-in for JetBrains ReSharper enables automatic code inspection in Visual Studio and shows errors, warnings, suggestions and hints for you to improve the code with ease.

SafeDevelop today announces .NET Code Inspector 1.2, a new plug-in for JetBrains ReSharper. Once installed, the plug-in makes it easy to inspect code within the Visual Studio editor. When the inspection is over, the developer is shown all found errors, as well as warnings, suggestions and hints on how to improve the source code.

Code inspection is an important part of the software development cycle. It involves reviewing the source code of the project in order to find problems. For most developers, code inspection does not come easy because applications contain thousands of lines of code and reviewing every line takes a lot of days and efforts. This is where .NET Code Inspector can extend a helping hand by automating the whole process.

Getting started with code analysis is fairly easy. Simply select “Run Code Inspection” from the popup context menu in the Solution Explorer and run the inspection of the selected part of code. The plug-in analyzes code automatically, reading thousands of code lines in a matter of a minute. When the inspection is completed, you can see all found errors, warnings, suggestions and hints and use them to make the source code safer.

For better viewing, the results can be grouped by severity, inspection kind, type, type and member and other criteria. If you, for example, group the results by inspection kind, you’ll see the following groups: code redundancies, code structure analysis, potential errors, bad practices and warnings.

.NET Code Inspector offers an effective, trouble-free way to find the maximum number of errors and see warnings, suggestions and hints on how to improve code. The integration of .NET Code Inspector into your software development life cycles will save you much time and efforts, while letting you produce the safest code.

The installation of .NET Code Inspector into the Visual Studio is seamless and does not cause any compatibility issues. Supported programming languages include C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

Available now, .NET Code Inspector 1.2 costs 10 Euro. A free 14-day evaluation version is available for free.

Read more at http://safedevelop.com/Products/CodeInspector/.