The great guys from JetBrains finally released ReSharper 4.0. Congratulations for a great work the team has done.

If you are a C# developer and don't know ReSharper make sure to check it out. It will make your life so much easier.

ReSharper 4.0 has finally reached beta state. It can  be downloaded here.

If you want to know more check out this comparison of plain Visual Studio 2008 vs. ReSharper 4.0.

Here are some of the most important new features of ReSharper 4.0:

• Full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ
• Comprehensive insights into .NET Framework
• Solution-wide code analysis
• Code cleanup
• New Refactoring
• Multiple new productivity features
• Smoother interaction with Visual Studio
• ASP.NET speedup
  

For a detailed description of these features go to http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/beta/beta_newfeatures.html

Congratulations JetBrains, for releasing the next major version of ReSharper!

I'm developing with ReSharper for about a year now. I don't leave the house without it anymore. I didn't see another tool that boosts my development performance in VS more than ReSharper.

If you don't know ReSharper yet, I strongly suggest to check it out now.

You can download a 30-day trial here. 

JetBrains released a beta version of ReSharper 3.0 some days ago.
Check out this blog entry to learn about the new features. You can download a fully functional 30-day evaluation version here.

If you don't know ReSharper yet, you should check it out ASAP! It is a great piece of software.

Unfortunately there is some trouble going on in the ReSharper newsgroups. The reason for this is the pricing decisions JetBrains made for ReSharper 3.0. So if you purchased ReSharper 2.5.2 ($149-$249) on April 15th or later you'll get a free upgrade to ReSharper 3.0 for free.

Now there are a number of complaints from those who won't get the free upgrade because they bought ReSharper before April 15th. They are even saying that they kick ReSharper and switch to other tools.
This is ridiculous.

First of all, I haven't run across any other tool that can compete with ReSharper. So I'd say good luck finding something.

And second, if you are a company I bet you didn't hesitate a second when you decided about the $600 coffee dispenser. Now there is a tool that saves you time and money and you still whine about $249 you have to spend?

For several releases JetBrains gave their upgrades out for free. I always wondered how they could do this. Now they are charging for the upgrade, and I'm going to pay for it.

And you know what. If you don't want to pay for the upgrade, just stick to 2.5.2. After all, this is what you paid for. JetBrains never said that upgrades are included for free.

JetBrains is going to release their unit testing tool ReSharper UnitRun as a stand-alone application and it will be freeware. As a ReSharper user I'm using it for quite some time now. And, as with all the JetBrains tools, I don't want to miss it.

Here is the announcement of the Early Access Program:

We are glad to announce opening of Early Access Program for our new product -- ReSharper UnitRun. This product is basically ReSharper's unit testing functionality released separately that will be available for free. At JetBrains we believe that developers should have free tools supporting their basic needs and recent development of TDD makes unit test runners a part of the basic package.  The software is free, you only will be asked to register on the first use. You may cancel the registration in which case you will be able to use the add-in for 30 days without registration prompt.

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Go now and download it from our EAP download page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Download

Three months ago Scott Bellware released a couple of NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 (TM). Since then I used them heavily and they saved me quite some time.

As I mentioned in my previous post I'm a ReSharper user now. So it didn't take long until I decided to port Scott's Code Snippets to ReSharper Live Templates.

With Scott's kind permission I will provide the templates here. Download the template file and install it using ReSharper's options dialog. Go to the Templates page and import the file using the "Import Templates from File" button.



For the complete list of shortcuts you should visit Scott's blog post. I couldn't have listed the snippets better than he did. So just check out this post.

NUnit-Templates.xml (8.26 kb)

Today JetBrains released version 2.0 of its popular Visual Studio (TM) add-in ReSharper.

"ReSharper is undoubtedly the most intelligent add-in to Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005. It comes equipped with a rich set of features that greatly increase the productivity of C# and ASP.NET developers. With ReSharper, one gets intelligent coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, as well as unmatched support for code refactoring, unit testing, and a whole lot more. All ReSharper advanced features are available right from Visual Studio."

Key Features

• Error Highlighting and Quick-Fixes
• Advanced Coding Assistance
• Numerous Refactorings
• Navigation and Search
• Unit Testing
• ASP.NET Editing
• NAnt and MSBuild Scripts Editing
• and many more...
  

I use ReSharper since a couple of weeks now. And I'm really impressed. If you think the built-in VS-refactoring capabilities are cool and great, you haven't seen ReSharper yet. Compared with the ReSharper features, the VS refactorings are just a bunch of ridiculous toys.

You can get ReSharper for $199 which is a steal if you consider the productivity you gain.

Kaum poste ich über eine neue Schriftart, die ich neuerdings verwende, veröffentlicht Microsoft das Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005. (via Alexander)

Dieser Font gefällt mir sogar noch einen Tick besser.

 

Heute durfte ich die Bekanntschaft mit einem ziemlich nervenden Fehler im Visual Studio machen.

Durch die Verwendung (es reicht schon das Öffnen) des ASP.NET Configuration Tools wird die web.config verändert. Es wird im configuration-Tag der Namespace "http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0" hinzugefügt. Das Schema kann nicht gefunden werden. Dadurch lässt sich das Projekt nicht mehr übersetzen und Intellisense fällt für die web.config auch aus.

Man kann nun einfach das xmlns-Attribut wieder rauslöschen und schon läuft's wieder. Aber nervig ist das schon. Das lässt sich aber noch einfacher lösen. Dazu muss die Datei %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ASP.NETWebAdminFiles\App_Code\WebAdminPage.cs angepasst werden:

Man ersetze in Zeile 93:

config.NamespaceDeclared = true;

durch

config.NamespaceDeclared = false;

Dadurch wird das Einfügen des Namespace-Verweises verhindert.