JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

New and existing users are enjoying ReSharper 2.5 more than ever before. Mike Roberts, for one, is blogtastic about it in his blog.

Mike writes:

“I’ve been using Resharper for a while now, in fact ever since it has its first public EAP… 3 years on or so and I still think Resharper is the number 1 must-have Visual Studio plugin… If you’re a C# coder and have never tried Resharper I can’t recommend it enough.”

Read the full post at www.mikebroberts.com/blogtastic/archives/132

Keep developing with pleasure, Mike!

This fall we nominated our products for several .NET Developers’ Journal Readers’ Choice awards.

The voting is already open, and we’d like to invite all of you to spend some of your time, to register and vote for JetBrains’ software (if you think it deserves the recognition, of course). Here is the list of nominations:

Best .NET Build Tools / Installers - TeamCity 1.0

Best .NET Editors and IDEs - ReSharper 2.0

Best .NET Profilers, Optimizers, Decompilers - dotTrace 2.0

Best .NET Source Control and Team Facilitator - TeamCity 1.0

Best .NET Testing, Q/A, and Debugging Tool - ReSharper 2.0

The nearest minor TeamCity 1.2 release is aimed at improving the productivity and the support for the continuous integration process of .NET platform developers. It also contains a number of bugfixes and improvements.

The final release is scheduled for January 15, 2007. In the meantime, we invite you to download the first Release Candidate of TeamCity 1.2.

New feature highlights are:

• integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• support of Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0

The integration plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 can be downloaded from My Settings page; the installation procedure is quick and straightforward. After you have installed a plugin, you can jump from the results of failed tests on TeamCity’s Build Results page to the TeamCity Stacktrace View in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.



When creating a new project in TeamCity, select Visual SourceSafe from the list of available version control systems and specify the VCS project root values.

To successfully run the TeamCity 1.2 release candidate, you can either use the existing 1.0 or 1.1 license key, or request a 60-day trial key by completing a short evaluation form.

If you have not seen the latest news on our website yet, you may be interested in knowing that JetBrains is currently offering personal licenses of ReSharper for $99 USD (its old introduction price!) and dotTrace for 249 USD per license. These limited time offers expire January 11th, 2007. You can find more information about these special offers at:

http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/

Also tucked away on our website is news that we are offering a $99 USD saving on commercial licenses of ReSharper 2.5 and dotTrace 2.0 when purchased together in what we like to call our .NET Productivity Pack. This offer will last until December 31st.

You can purchase the .NET Productivity Pack here: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy/commercial.html

And lastly, if you haven’t checked out all of the latest features added to ReSharper 2.5 (read-only VB .NET support, performance upgrades, modified UI, etc…), you can learn more about these new features on the complete feature list at:

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/index.html

Current ReSharper customers upgrade for FREE, so just download this latest version and utilize your current license key and you will be all set to go.

Wishing you a happy holiday season and a completely crazy new year’s celebration!

David Stennett
Team JetBrains

Before we all leave for various seasonal holidays, we wanted to get ReSharper for Visual Studio 2005 version 2.5 out to you. It’s ready to go right now, and you can get your copy at: www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/. The upgrade is FREE to all currently licensed ReSharper users.

What’s New

ReSharper for Visual Studio 2005, v. 2.5 concentrates on the performance improvements you have asked us for (but of course we couldn’t resist a few new features as well). You’ll experience better performance in all areas: faster installation and startup (Visual Studio startup time is now close to that of Visual Studio without ReSharper), faster typing (including auto-popup on Code Completions), plus speedups for code formatting, error highlighting, Live Templates, parameter info, and more.

We think you’ll also like the new navigation and analysis features such as the Navigate from Here feature which provides a single keystroke for quick access to all navigation actions from the current editor caret position, and Value Analysis, a new on-the-fly error analysis which automatically detects when you access a variable that may possibly be null and immediately warns you about it.

Also in this version, a number of ReSharper smart navigation and code assistance features also work for Visual Basic. You can find out about everything new at www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/newfeatures.html.

–The ReSharper Team at JetBrains

"Develop With Pleasure!"

We keep discovering more success stories where folks used dotTrace Profiler 2.0 to solve .NET performance and memory issues effectively.

Asbjørn Vølstad used dotTrace 2.0 to profile a database-driven, dynamic web-site. He was able to pinpoint the bottlenecks in his ASP.NET code, which turned out to be database calls. Read his account of this accomplishment in Optimizing a big dynamic web app….

Thank you, Asbjørn, for sharing your profiling experience!

We are glad to launch the long-awaited early access program for the next versions of TeamCity, namely 1.2 and Agra (a codename of 1.5 version).

The nearest minor release (1.2) is mostly aimed at supporting the continuous integration process of .NET platform developers. It already provides:

• integration with Visual Studio and possibility to open the stacktraces of failed tests when you click the link of failed test on the web.
• support of Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0 to manage your source files revisions.

Please note: in this EAP you will need to have VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partner) SDK to use Visual Studio add-in for TeamCity (available at Microsoft web-site for free). Please visit http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/ for details. This will certainly be fixed in the next EAP and release versions.

Agra improves nearly every aspect of TeamCity:

• Web Administration:
• enhancements of agent properties management
• dependent builds triggering
• project cloning
• checkout on build agent
• Version Control Systems:
• ClearCase support
• Build runners:
• a Build Runner for searching code duplicates
• Improved Maven 2 support
• Ant 1.7 support
• Usability enhancements:
• viewing file changes (diff) on the web (already implemented)
• enhanced, more flexible notification rules
• customizable build log filtering
• Integration with IDEs:
• Eclipse integration
• Microsoft Visual Studio integration enhancements

In the Agra version we also plan to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System - one more good news for .NET platform developers.

Visit the TeamCity 1.2 and Agra EAP page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW
The changes page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Changes+page

Download the stable 1.2 EAP:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Download+Stable

Download the richer Agra EAP:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Download+Latest

We look forward for your comments and suggestions.