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The Early Access Program for TeamCity 2.0 now includes a cool Visual Studio plug-in which supports remote runs for Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Remote run is a safety net for testing the latest code changes. Instead of committing your changes to the version control - and risking to break the build - you can send them to the build server and run them remotely. If your tests fail, you’ll get the notification and the sources in version control will happily remain unchanged.

Check out our TeamCity EAP program at http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW.

For more details on the currently released version (1.2), see TeamCity home.

We’ve said time and again that ReSharper is the most intelligent add-in to Visual Studio. Patrick Riva concurs. By his own admission, of all power tools, ReSharper is the “one you couldn’t do without.”

Read the full post http://justadev.blogspot.com/2007/01/power-tools-resharper-definitely-most.html.

“Just try it and you’ll love it,” says Patrick. We hope more and more developers will take his sincere advice

Ãœber programmer and active community member Jean-Paul Boodhoo will be hosting a 5-day bootcamp in Richmond, Virginia (USA) March 26th - 30th, 2007 focusing exclusively on pragmatically applying .NET within the context of developing a working N-Tiered application. Those of you itching to get your hands dirty in such an intensive course should really check this out. Jean-Paul’s bootcamp will cover the following:

Core Concepts Overview

Expanding the capabilities of developing with VS.Net - Enter ReSharper (a productivity add-in for Visual Studio .Net)
There’s more to life than generated code
Automation for the developer
Generics ( they’re not just for collections )
Back to basics - Rules Of Good Object Oriented Design
Dependency Injection
Object Relational Mapping in .Net
Applying the dependency inversion principle
Domain Driven Design
Passive View/Supervising Controller (Model View Presenter)
Creating layered architectures
Driving out functionality and design through testing
Taking Control Of Databinding
Behavior (Test) Driven Development
Core design patterns applied
Pragmatic Productivity Tools For Developers

You can get all of the information about Jean-Paul’s bootcamp from his blog at:

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo’s Blog

David Stennett
Team JetBrains

We are pleased to announce the release of TeamCity 1.2 – an integrated team environment – aimed at improving the productivity of .NET platform developers.

This new version of TeamCity provides:

• a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005,
• Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0 support.

TeamCity integration plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 enables navigation to the results of the failed tests from TeamCity’s Build Results page to Microsoft Visual Studio editor in just one click. To achieve this, download the plugin from the My Settings page in the TeamCity Add-ons area, complete a simple installation wizard, set up a project in TeamCity, and enjoy the new workflow!

View TeamCity 1.2 flash demo highlighting the integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

See what’s new in TeamCity 1.2 and read its release notes.

Test drive our demo server with TeamCity 1.2 installed.

Download TeamCity 1.2.

Ray Linder reviewed the most popular products for easier web application development for ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005. The showdown included: ReSharper vs. CodeRush vs. CodeSmith vs. Visual Assist X.

Ray was of the opinion that, while other products provide nice gadgets and visual effects, ReSharper is the tool that actually speeds up your work!

Read the full blogpost at http://blogs.clearscreen.com/raylinder/archive/2007/01/14/5963.aspx

And what are your thoughts on this?

Community member Albert Weinert has created a plug-in that adds mbUnit support to ReSharper’s UnitTest Runner. You can download Albert’s creation directly from here:

http://der-albert.com/archives/93-MbUnit-Support-fuer-ReSharper.html

If you’re not familiar with mbUnit, please see:

http://www.mertner.com/confluence/display/MbUnit/Overview

“MbUnit is an extensible .NET Test Framework. As in NUnit, tests are created at runtime using Reflection and custom attributes. MbUnit differentiates itself from NUnit in its extensibility model. It contains a number of tests that go beyond simple unit testing, such as a greater assert range, pairwise testing, combinatorial testing, data oriented testing, etc…” (from mbUnit homepage)

If you get a chance, try downloading it and testing it out for Albert, and give him some feedback!

David Stennett
Team JetBrains