AEU24: Top 10 Advanced Features of MZ-Tools (Carlos Quintero)
In this session, Carlos presented a detailed demonstration covering ten advanced features of his highly regarded VBE add-in, MZ-Tools, that can make you more productive and create better code in VBA. There are features to code faster, to find code faster, to review the quality of the code and much more.
The session focused on these MZ-Tools features:
1. Portable edition
2. Customizing MZ-Tools buttons on built-in toolbars and new toolbars
3. Keyword expansion for code templates
4. Development Environment Settings Review
5. Generate custom HTML documentation from XML documentation with XSLT
6. Find / Replace with regular expressions
7. Custom code element sorting
8. Nomenclature Rules Review
9. Programming Rules Review
10. Automating MZ-Tools features with VBScript / PowerShell
A PDF of this presentation is available at https://isladogs.co.uk/aeu-24
For more details about all the features of MZ-Tools or buy a license for this excellent VBE add-in, go to https://www.mztools.com/
Auto translated subtitles are currently available in Spanish, French, German & Italian as well as English.
TIMES:
00:00:00 Welcome by Colin
00:01:16 Introduction by Carlos Quintero
00:02:40 About MZ Tools
00:04:22 Origin of the name
00:05:18 Agenda
00:06:45 Portable edition
00:09:26 Toolbar customization
00:14:10 Question from Colin: "compact" vs. "restart"
00:15:14 Keyword expansion
00:18:42 Environment settings
00:23:22 HTML documentation using XML/XLST
00:29:08 Find/Replace with regular expressions
00:38:38 Question from Adrian: are backreferences in "Find" a standard regexp feature?
00:40:32 Code element sorting
00:47:32 Nomenclature rules review
00:54:33 Programming rules review
01:00:16 Automating MZ-Tools with VBScript/PowerShell
01:05:00 Question from Jim: Is it possible to centralize the rules when working in a team?
01:07:27 Question from Adrian 2: Do your enforcing rules (e.g. "Force Option Explicit") perform a check on existing code?
01:10:14 Predefined regular expressions
01:11:16 Question from Neil: Can you save the regular expressions you create?
01:12:40 Question from George: Can MZ-Tools be used with Visual Studio?
01:13:55 Alessandro's upcoming presentation for the SQL Server with Access group on his "Access on Steroids" book
01:16:05 Next month: Better Access Charts with Thomas Moeller
01:20:44 End of session