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Choosing appropriate identifiers for the constructs in your code provides better readability and maintainability. With the latest build of Telerik JustCode you can now easily set naming conventions for all your code elements. Configuration and Supported languages These rules can be set for C# and VB.NET and are part of the Code Style section of the JustCode options dialog: These options are part of the shared settings so you can share them per solution as well. Naming Rules There are seven types of rules that a user can choose from: camelCase PascalCase UPPER_UNDERSCORE lower_underscore Sentence_underscore PascalCase_Underscore camelCase_Underscore You can also disable the naming convention for a specific construct. Just choose “Disabled” from the rules...

A common question we get asked is how to add new statuses to work items in TeamPulse.  While the process is not difficult, it is also not immediately obvious and a bit of complexity is added if your project is syncing with TFS.  To help people accomplish this task, we have added a how-to article in the TeamPulse documentation entitled “How to: Add a Custom State”.  This article will walk you through the process of adding a status to a work item in TeamPulse and adding a new state to a work item type definition in TFS.  If ...

What makes software valuable? Or, to be specific, when does software become valuable? To put it simply, software becomes valuable when the proper solution gets into the hands of the user. Software sitting on a developer’s computer, no matter how wonderfully it was designed or coded, doesn’t provide any value. Your development teams are hard at work developing the best software possible. They are employing many of the agile practices that have been developed over the past decade or so, including implementing a rapid feedback loop through increased collaboration, developing in small iterations, ensuring transparency, and responding to change. Including ...

There are many reasons why you would want to decompile an assembly with Telerik JustDecompile. Perhaps you’re curious about the inner workings of a particular reference, or maybe you’re looking for interesting techniques. But when you’re trying to solve an issue, you need to be able to quickly find what’s going wrong. Clues can range from a particular method call to an exception message, and a more robust method of searching was requested on the JustDecompile User Voice. We have answered the request in the latest version of JustDecompile. The Search Window The new search window is accessible through the common shortcut...