Code Converter Comes to Vista

April 8, 2007

Following the successful release of his Code Converter widget onto the Yahoo and Google platforms, Todd Anglin has ported the code into a Vista Gadget - and very nice it looks too!

Code Converter parses either C# or VB (both in .NET flavours) and converts it to the other. It does this by making use of the NRefactory library by open source developers ic#code.

As it happens, I develop in both languages - so this is personally a welcome release. I’ve given the Gadget a test with various snippets that I had to hand, and it does an admirable job. I did find a couple of minor visual issues with it however…

Firstly, if I physically drag the Gadget from the Gallery to the Sidebar then the GUI ends up offset - meaning that I can only just get to the launch button. This doesn’t happen if I right-click the Gadget and select ‘Add’.

Secondly (and possibly only because I’m a picky designer), the Gadget’s width is less than every other Gadget that I have installed. Unless a user has hacked about with their Sidebar, the default width should be 130 pixels - which this isn’t!

Regardless of the above, this is an excellent and useful Gadget - and worth a download if you either code in both the .NET languages, or are in the process of moving from one to the other. Well done Todd!

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