Product Review - Total Visual CodeTools

MSDN Magazine
Theresa W. Carey
April 1, 2002

FMS Inc. is shipping Total Visual CodeTools for Access 2002, which now supports Office XP. designed specifically for developers using Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, or any Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) platform, Total Visual CodeTools is a collection of 12 professional code-centric tools and utilities that help ensure coding standards, reduce development time, and eliminate errors.

Integrated directly into the Visual Basic or VBA IDE, Total Visual CodeTools includes Code Cleanup, Code Delivery, a variety of other coding tools, and enterprise application management capability. Code Cleanup standardizes existing code at the procedure, module, or projects level so that inherited projects are easier to understand and handle errors better. Code Delivery prepares your code for distribution, allowing you to minimize the hassle of reproducing bugs or attempting to understand user bug reports. Code Builders help you to quickly write pieces of code that conform to your standards. Multi-user features support sharing of coding standards for the entire development team.

Total Visual CodeTools allows you to define all aspects of your coding standards, including visual style, indentation, error handling, commenting, variable naming conventions, and more. Define your settings once, save them to a shared location, and your entire team can use your enterprise standards without even thinking about it.