Roland Weigelt

<summary>
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML
documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited
from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from
name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
</summary>

Quick Facts

• Bugfix release
• Download on the GhostDoc Website
• Users of earlier versions: Please read the ReadMe on upgrading!

About this Release

Version 2.1.2 fixes a problem with side-by-side installations of GhostDoc versions for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

What’s New in GhostDoc 2.1.2:

• Fixed: GhostDoc versions for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 interfering when installed side-by-side.
• Changed: An upgrade installation by starting the MSI file while an older version is installed is no longer supported, i.e. you have to uninstall GhostDoc before running the new setup. Note that this does not affect an upgrade of the configuration of earlier versions: the configuration file is not removed during uninstallation of the GhostDoc add-in, so you'll still be offered to upgrade your configuration when installing the new version. For detailed installation instructions, please take a look at the ReadMe in the ZIP file.
• Added: A few special words for ("of the" trigger and prefix words, "no the" words).

Note that VB.Net support is turned off by default and has to be turned on in the configuration dialog.

Am 20.11. findet an Stelle des üblichen User-Treffens der Bonner .NET User Group ein Microsoft TechTalk mit dem Titel “Übersicht zum Expression Studio” in den Räumen der Comma Soft AG statt. Anders als sonst beginnt die Veranstaltung bereits um 18:00, auch ist dieses Mal eine (kostenlose) Anmeldung erforderlich.

Anmeldung und weitere Infos bei Microsoft, eine ausführliche Beschreibung der Anfahrt gibt es auf der Website von Bonn-to-Code.Net.

Also: Anmelden nicht vergessen!

Die Materialien zu meinem Vortrag “Code Snippets, Item Templates und Wizards” beim Treffen der .NET User Group Frankfurt auf der BASTA! 2007 stehen jetzt zum Download bereit:

• Powerpoint-Folien ink. Beispiele

Die .NET User Group Frankfurt trifft sich am Dienstag, 18.9.2007 um 18:00 auf der BASTA!-Konferenz in Mainz. Da einer der beiden Sprecher verhindert ist, springe ich ab als Ersatz ein und halte einen Vortrag über Code Snippets, Item Templates und Wizards.

A new version of Jens Schaller’s SonicFileFinder is out. This free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 (and now 2008) adds a fast incremental search for files in the currently loaded solution, and it’s is the second add-in I install on every new development maching (the first being GhostDoc ;-).

More details in this blog post.

Die Materialien zum Vortrag “Visual Studio anpassen und erweitern” von Jens Schaller und mir auf der NRW07 stehen jetzt zum Download bereit:

• Powerpoint-Folien
• Code-Beispiel

Interesting: Devs posting their font and color settings to a website (http://idehotornot.ning.com).

Most of the themes are pretty dark, seems like people either have fond memories of their first PC or watched too many Hollywood “hacker” movies (no offense guys, just kidding ;-). Right now reading the tag cloud is like “tag tag tag tag DAAAHAAAAARK!!!! tag tag tag light” (note that due to the dynamic nature of the website this may no longer be the case at the time you’re reading this).

Long time readers of my blog know that I’m a proponent of proportional width fonts for editing source code, and I like to play around with all the customization features of the IDE (e.g. bold fonts for certain elements). I published the results of my experiments last year a blog post, now I’ve uploaded my settings for Visual Studio 2005 to the “IDE hot or not” website where you can review and rate it.

Update 2007–07–28: The “IDE hot or not” website has downscaled my original image showing the color scheme down to a point where it’s hard too see anything. So I’ll post the image here:

Die Materialien für meinen Vortrag gestern Abend in Braunschweig stehen jetzt zum Download bereit:

• PowerPoint-Folien
• Code-Beispiele