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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Test Regular Expressions in Visual Studio #100
Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio
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return ((bool)(results[0]));
}
}
}
You will then be able to use this class from your project to interface with the
UserValidation Web Service.
ContractFirst Options
The ContractFirst add-in also contains a number of options and properties
that can be used to customize the code that is generated by the tool. These
options are shown in Table 13-1.
The ContractFirst add-in is a great tool if you have subscribed to the idea of
contract-first Web Service development. There are also plans in the future to
add a wizard that would help you create WSDL files starting with an XSD
file so you don’t have to worry about all the clumsy WSDL details. Instead,
ContractFirst will present you with a simple but powerful abstraction of it.
Look for a lot more from this tool in the future.
HACK
#100
Test Regular Expressions in Visual Studio Hack #100
Regular expressions can be much trickier than the rest of your code. Break
the edit-compile-debug-shriek cycle with a free add-in that tests regular
expressions right inside Visual Studio.
Regular expressions are strings of symbols and characters that are used to
identify a part or parts of strings. Regular expressions are a very powerful and
flexible technology, but they are also a very challenging technology. The easi-
est way to more efficiently work with regular expressions is to
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