Roland Weigelt

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1st Place for GhostDoc !!!

Wow... what a way to start into the weekend... GhostDoc was voted the #1 Addin in Roy's Addin Contest! If you haven't tried it yet, why not download it and give it a whirl. There's even a "how do I see some action without reading boring stuff" demo included. After installing the MSI, simply open the program menu -> Weigelt -> GhostDoc and read the quickstart document for the few steps necessary.

Right now I'm busy preparing 1.10; I don't know when it will be ready for release (working on a CHM help file can chew up enormous amounts of time), but it shouldn't be that far away. The feature set is frozen and I'll touch the code only if a serious bug is found in 1.02. Note that funny results of the text generation don't count as a bug ;-)

I have a huge list of improvements waiting for 1.20 and later (e.g. generation rules for virtual "On..." methods), but first I want a clean release of 1.10.

Posted: Aug 13 2004, 03:55 PM by WeigeltRo | with 6 comment(s)
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Sonu Kapoor said:

Congrats Pal! Dont forget to make photos when you are at Microsoft ;-)
# August 13, 2004 11:37 PM

marco said:

Very nice addin! What are the new features for 1.1 (and skipped to v1.2?)

Regards
Marco
# August 14, 2004 1:33 PM

Roland Weigelt said:

Features coming in 1.1:
- improved "of the" reordering
- minor bug fixes
- Configuration dialog (configure additional acronyms, "of the" trigger words, words that should never be preceded by "the")
- Import/Export
- Better documentation

Planned features for 1.20:
I'll publish a roadmap after 1.10 is out the door.
# August 14, 2004 1:46 PM

Jonathan de Halleux said:

Hi,

Do you plan a support for VC2005 soon ?

ps: Congrats for you price :)
# August 15, 2004 1:17 PM

Roland Weigelt said:

Hi Jonathan,

yes, support for Visual Studio 2005 is planned. Right now I only have the Express version of VS2005 (no addin support) installed in a VMWare image, but as soon my ordered Beta 1 DVD arrives, I will at least experiment with a VS2005 version of GhostDoc.

But before I invest much time in that, I want to reach a certain level of maturity for GhostDoc. Let's face it, at this point VS2005 support is a "nice to have" feature for most of us, as the *majority* uses (has to use) VS2003 to write anything more than just a few lines of experimental code.

Considering the extra testing involved when supporting two versions, I would like to wait with that as long as possible (i.e. until a large number of users demands a 2005 version).
# August 15, 2004 4:59 PM

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