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Scientists hypothesize on existence of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010. They argue pros and cons endlessly, bringing history to the table and even gamble around the odds if ReSharper can run in the new shining Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.

You can know for sure, it runs! Want to know when it will be running for you? Read on!

See how the new Extension Manager happily shows ReSharper as an installed extension, making it a first class citizen in the new Visual Studio shell.

Here, our well-known ReSharper tool windows are shown participating in the improved Visual Studio docking system.

Can you see those unit tests running? Of course not, it’s a screenshot. But rest assured that development pleasure-inducing bits are being cooked up in large integration ovens here at JetBrains.

Next to integration ovens, there is a high-tech lab where die-hard developers in white coats are implanting smartness into ReSharper’s understanding of C# 4. Variance and dynamic, optional parameters and named arguments - all the features of new C# version are being mercilessly stuffed inside the most intelligent add-in for Visual Studio. Developers perform their cruel experiments with Visual Studio 2008, writing C# 4 code where only the previous version of the language is meant to be used.

Now, you might want to know when all the intelligence of ReSharper will be available for Visual Studio 2010? No need to wait for ReSharper 5.0 to come out! We plan to release preview bits compatible with Visual Studio 2010 for you to play and test in June, and June is just around the corner!

We have recently crossed the bounds of our specialization to set a world record in data transfer rate by throwing a 450GB file from one machine to another in only 1 minute! It was surprisingly easy: all we had to do was find a fast-running developer and equip the guy with an HDD!
Fake world records aside, only 4 months since our previous milestone, we’ve collected and successfully opened a 450GB snapshot. We mean it. Anyone ever seen a .NET profiler lifting that much weight?

After expanding its functionality in previous releases, ReSharper 4.5 shifts focus to the issues of performance and memory usage. Making the tool agile, robust and responsive – and a bit smarter still – is the main idea behind ReSharper 4.5.

Read about the improvements and enhancements below or watch this Flash demo.

• Performance and memory consumption: When working on large solutions, you will feel a great deal of difference between ReSharper 4.0 and 4.5.
• New solution-wide warnings and suggestions: Analyze usage of non-private types and type members within your whole solution (or don’t!).
• Visual Basic 9 support: ReSharper’s cross-language refactorings and editing experience enhancements now support VB9 code.
• Improved setup for naming conventions, which are now supported by all ReSharper features.
• New Inline Field refactoring and enhancements in existing refactorings.
• Go to Implementation: Go from the usage of a class or method straight to its implementation, bypassing its declaration.

Download your free 30-day trial of ReSharper 4.5.

Upgrades from ReSharper 4.0 are free.

Have you ever wanted to really customize ReSharper, just the way you want it?

Now you can build your own, with our brand new ReSharper Configurator. Choose the analysis engine, select the feature packages you need, the supported languages, and even the colors! Go lightweight or feature-rich - it’s all up to you.

Click here to build your ReSharper now: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/build_now.html

The 19th Jolt Awards were finally announced last week. Our own .NET productivity tools, dotTrace and ReSharper, were named recipients of two Productivity Awards!

ReSharper was one of the top three Development Environments.
dotTrace was recognized as a top productivity Utility.

Thanks again for making our products a success, folks. Keep developing with JetBrains, productivity and pleasure!

Your wait is almost over: ReSharper 4.5 has gone public beta, and the official release is just a few weeks away!
 
After significantly expanding the set of ReSharper features in previous releases, we’ve shifted focus to the issues of performance and memory usage. Making the tool more agile, robust and responsive was our main goal when developing ReSharper 4.5.
 
ReSharper 4.5 brings a wide-ranging set of improvements that go way beyond performance enhancements:

• Performance and memory consumption: When working on large solutions, you’ll feel a great deal of difference between ReSharper 4.0 and 4.5.
• New solution-wide warnings and suggestions: Analyze usage of non-private types and type members within your whole solution.
• Visual Basic 9 support: ReSharper’s cross-language refactorings and editing experience enhancements now provide support for VB9 code.
• Extended setup for naming conventions, which are now supported by all ReSharper features.
• New Inline Field refactoring and enhancements in existing refactorings.
• Go to Implementation: Go from usage of a class or method straight to its end implementation, bypassing abstract classes and/or interfaces.

 
To get your hands on the public beta, download it now!

The list of global software conferences has recently been extended with a new exciting member - the Great Indian Developer Summit, which will host the second edition of Great Indian Developer Awards (GIDA) this year.

Celebrating software development product excellence, GIDA is India’s premiere awards event with 100+ nominees shortlisted for this year’s upcoming edition, the event’s second so far.

Our own ReSharper was chosen as one of nine nominees in the Development Environments category, along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Oracle JDeveloper, and six other outstanding development tools.

Other categories included Design and Modeling, Change and Configuration Management, Collaboration Solution Testing, Security, Content Management, Web Development, Mobile Development, Frameworks, and Database.

The winners will be announced and honored at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2009 to be held on April 25, 2009, in Bangalore, India. The awards jury is comprised of distinguished executives, seasoned industry professionals, and internationally recognized academia.

For more information on the awards and to vote, see official GIDA web site.

Sometimes during profiling sessions you notice that your application is running slow or hanging, only to realize that you have not turned off a debug switch. After that, you have to reprofile everything.
Other times, after hours of continuous profiling, you optimize a consuming method, and again, you have to start from scratch to see if the optimization actually worked.
We thought we could provide a less time-consuming option for scenarios like these.
Starting from version 4.0, dotTrace will be able to recalculate a snapshot without reprofiling your application. Just ask “what if this function is removed” or “what if I optimize this function by 40%” and get a prompt answer from dotTrace: it will display new time values and compare them to the old ones.

JetBrains tools continue to receive recognition and praise: three of them have been named finalists in this year’s Jolt Awards!

ReSharper, our intelligent add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that you love so much, was honored as one of the five best Development Environments.

In the Change and Configuration Management category, the finalists included TeamCity, our distributed build management and continuous integration server.

And last but not least, dotTrace, our super-fast and efficient .NET profiling tool, was picked by Jolt judges as one of the best five Utilities.

Best of all, each of these products still has a shot at winning the big kahuna - the Jolt Excellence award, or maybe a Jolt Productivity award! We’ll keep you posted.

We thank you, our customers, for making our products a success.
Keep developing with JetBrains - and with pleasure!

Back in the days when R# 4.0 was still in the making, we were profiling it heavily in order to, you know, make sure it wouldn’t suck all your hardware resources out. Time and again we were getting thousands and thousands of threads accumulated in snapshots. Obviously, merging them was a real challenge.
Why, we thought, couldn’t R# guys be more accurate with threads, and wondered whether we would ever get a complete snapshot.
The thread exuberance issue in R# was eventually solved, but you know what? Even before that happened, dotTrace had never ever gone crazy profiling the Most Intelligent Tool for Visual Studio.
The message is: whenever you have a zillion threads in your application, it’s not a problem for dotTrace - it’s a problem for you.