Paulo Morgado : redgate

redgate .NET Reflector 5.1.5.0 Released

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:47:35 GMT

Today redgate released version 5.1.5.0 of .NET Reflector.

It was a bumpy release. Early today, at work, as soon as @antsprofiler was announced the deployment of the new version I tried to upgrade and was offered an upgrade to the version 5.1.4.0 over and over again.

Early tonight, at home, when I tried to upgrade I was offered to upgrade to 5.1.5.0.

The funny thing is that, if I try to run it from C:\Program Files I get a UAC dialog the mentions Reflector 5.1.3.

Just moved to my C:\Program Files (Utils) and it all works fine.

Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector Is Now Red Gate’s .NET Reflector

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:34:29 GMT

Let’s face it, if you don’t know .NET Reflector, you can never claim to be a .NET developer.

Today Red Gate announced the acquisition of Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector.

On .NET Reflector’s page, Red Gate states that “will continue to maintain a free version for the benefit of the community”.

You can read an interview with Lutz Roeder and James Moore (general manager of .NET Developer Tools at Red Gate) at simple-talk.

James doesn’t know yet how to improve Reflector, but I do. Reflector needs a major improvement on UI usability and performance. Let’s see if I can come up with a list:

For me, search as you type is not a good idea as it is in Reflector.
Still in the search theme, search as you type would be nice for the active code window.
I cannot understand why changing any of the options fires a total repaint and lost of the view of the active code item.
Settings like code, documentation and number formatting should possible to change on the fly with a simple toolbar click.

I’m sure Red Gate is more than capable of taking good care of .NET Reflector.

Custom Generators For SQL Data Generator 1.0 Beta

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:11:06 GMT

SQL Data Generator will be a great tool when redgate releases it.

David Connell has a detailed post on how to build your own generator where he explains the concepts and ideas behind developing generators for SQL Data Generator 1.0 Beta.

Andrew Clarke also has a nice example with it's Waffle Generator.