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VB Law Workstation - The automated code review Add-In. Automate code reviews within the IDE. Perform rapid, frequent, impartial reviews of Visual Basic source code. Review currently open projects within the Visual Basic IDE. Identify and avoid known problems early in the development life cycle. Detect problems relating to known issues with Visual Basic. Determine a "pass" or "fail" verdict for projects based on rulebase tolerances. Enforce Visual Basic coding standards effectively. Quickly obtain an accurate measure of coding standards compliance for your Visual Basic source code at any stage of the development life cycle. Enforce coding and naming conventions. Enforce software architecture design goals. Enforce GUI standards. Prevent use of unauthorised keywords. Increase developer productivity. Identify and correct coding standards violations without leaving the Visual Basic IDE. Navigate quickly to errant code. Prioritise violation corrections by rule, category, impact or severity. Perform background code reviews whilst editing code. Determine useful source statistics whilst editing code. Reduce learning curves for developers using your organisation's coding standards. Achieve a "correct first time" approach to coding. Reduce maintenance and future development costs. Improve readability and understanding of source code by enforcement of consistent coding style and naming conventions. Improve source code quality and maintainability. Target maintenance and testing effort more effectively. Gather and analyse valuable Visual Basic source code statistics. Generate summary or detailed project review reports in HTML format. Determine source code member make-up, code-comment ratios and line count statistics. Drill-down by project and source file to procedures. Show levels of improvement, or increased violations in source code over time. Identify "problem" areas of code. List and assess violations by source file, procedure, rule title, severity, category, convention type, impact or frequency. Compute McCabe cyclomatic complexity for Visual Basic code. Compute McCabe cyclomatic complexity metrics for procedures. Identify complex areas of code and assess ease of understanding and modification risk. Use complexity metrics to size and target unit testing effort. Comprehensive Visual Basic .NET compatibility test.  Free  Detect VB.NET porting issues within existing Visual Basic 6 source code. Detect Visual Basic 6 functionality which is not supported by VB.NET. Understand the changes the VB.NET upgrade wizard will make to your code. Estimate the potential effort that porting to VB.NET will require. Obtain advice on easing the migration from Visual Basic 6 to VB.NET. Avoid "quirks" of the VB.NET upgrade wizard. Link to on-line descriptions of VB.NET differences and porting advice.

VB Law Administrator - The VB Law flexible rule editor. Easily create and maintain Visual Basic law enforcement rules. Quickly create rules to match those of your organisation, customers and projects. Define rule conditions to trigger violations using VBA compatible script. Define categories and group rules by category. Define severity levels and group rule violations by severity. Attach detailed descriptions to violations. Attach detailed advice to violations describing the necessary corrective actions. Embed parser object property values in violation descriptions and advice messages to annotate violations and offer source specific explanations for violations and advice. Embed hyperlinks in violation descriptions and advice messages to external resources. Assign impact weightings to violations. Quickly enable/disable rules. Manage and publish rules centrally to ensure all developers use the latest rules. Define rules to enforce Visual Basic coding conventions. Define and attach coding conventions to parser events. Define unauthorised keywords. Enforce code layout and structure. Enforce project property settings and compilation options. Define rules to enforce Visual Basic naming conventions. Construct naming conventions using VBA compatible script, name tags and regular expressions. Attach naming conventions to parser object properties. Define name prefix, suffix and body rules. Easily define and maintain data type name tag values. Easily define and maintain scope name tag values. Easily define and maintain control name tag values. Enforce component versioning. Define authorised components and versions. Define authorised references and versions. Prevent use of unauthorised components and incorrect versions. Prevent use of unauthorised references and incorrect versions. Avoid error 429 - ActiveX component can't create object. Specify review tolerances. Define default rulebase tolerances to "pass" or "fail" source files during reviews. Specify a maximum allowed cyclomatic complexity value for procedures. Specify a minimum percentage comment source lines per source file. Specify maximum allowed violation count/impact levels by severity or total. Automatically generate coding standards documentation. Generate HTML documentation directly from rulebase files. Define rulebase documentation content and sequence. Launch rulebase documentation from within VB Law Workstation. Professional Visual Basic coding standards.  Free  To get you off to a fast start, VB Law is accompanied by a sample rulebase of over 200 rules forming a comprehensive set of professional VB coding standards. Written by experienced professional Visual Basic developers. Includes a full set of Visual Basic naming conventions.

VB Law Batch Processor - Standalone automated code review utility. Automate code reviews for a batch of Visual Basic projects. Perform rapid, frequent, impartial reviews for a batch of Visual Basic projects. Review projects independent of the Visual Basic IDE. Perform batch reviews interactively or automated from the command line. Identify and avoid known coding problems early in the development life cycle. Determine a "pass" or "fail" verdict for projects based on batch tolerances. Enforce development team VB coding standards effectively. Quickly obtain an accurate measure of coding standards compliance for your team's VB source code at any stage of the development life cycle. Enforce code layout and style. Enforce error handling strategy. Enforce coding and naming conventions. Enforce software architecture design goals. Enforce GUI standards. Prevent use of unauthorised keywords. Gather and summarise valuable Visual Basic project statistics. Generate batch summary and detailed project review reports in HTML format. Determine source code member make-up, code-comment ratios and line count statistics. Drill-down into projects and source files to procedures. Show levels of improvement, or increased violations in source code over time. Identify "problem" projects. Monitor code growth over time. Improve accuracy of project work-load estimation.

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