Alright, there has been a particular issue with the Regular Expression Builder that I've known about since its creation and it's long bugged me.  I haven't, until today, taken the time to address the issue.  Essentially, in order to maintain the root namespace within the regex assembly created, I had created a custom Attribute (AssemblyBaseNamespaceAttribute) that was baked into the target DLL.  This hasn't truly proven to be an issue (at least when running on Windows), though the compiler would warn you when referencing it because the RegexAssemblyBuilder.exe application wasn't to be found.  It was more of an annoyance.  However, as I learned today, it does seem to be an issue when running on Linux/Mono.

Now I had the incentive I needed to fix the problem.

So, today I present a minor (but important) update to the Regular Expression Builder.  Version 2.0.0.1 provides two updates:

• The ability to save a 'Release' version of the assembly.  This version is saved to a \Release folder beneath the project path and is created without the AssemblyBaseNamespaceAttribute so the dependency is no longer there.  Applications should reference this DLL and this is the one you should deploy.  However, when making changes, use the original as it still has the attribute.
• You can now TAB through the pattern field in the regex editor form.  If you want, however, you can still insert TABs (ASCII 9) within your regular expression in the Zoom window via CTRL+TAB.  This is particularly helpful if you want your regular expression to be broken up onto multiple lines for readability and/or to comment it and use the IgnorePatternWhitespace option.

Download it here