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As David Stennett succinctly put it in the last post, one reason why our software excels is because of community participation in its direct development. As we open dotTrace 3.0 Early Access Program (EAP), we invite you to provide your feedback and help shape the final product into the best it can be!

Your one-stop-shop for all dotTrace EAP resources is http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/NetProf/Home. From there you can see the recent changes, downdload the latest build of dotTrace, participate in forum discussions, and sign up for dotTrace news and announcements. You will also find the link to our bugtracker, where you are very welcome to submit bugs and feature suggestions.

The major features planned for dotTrace 3.0 are:

• Sampling CPU profiling: faster than tracing profiling we use now - at the expense of lower accuracy
• Thread-time CPU profiling: allows measuring contribution of individual threads in multithreaded applications, reducing interference between threads
• Collapsing strongly-connected components of objects graph in memory profiling mode - allows easier navigation through objects in memory snapshots)
• Improved Visual Studio integration allowing profiling of web applications from within Visual Studio
• Ability to save parts of CPU snapshot as separate snapshots
• Users can now navigate to declarations of types in memory snapshots

We look forward to your valuable contributions!

Note: Early-Access-Program (EAP) versions are PRE-BETA RELEASES. EAP versions have bugs. EAP versions are not completed software. EAP versions should not be used on production projects.

Note: Early-Access-Program (EAP) versions are PRE-BETA RELEASES. EAP versions have bugs. EAP versions are not completed software. EAP versions should not be used on production projects.

Our goal in releasing EAP versions to is allow you to view the software as we gradually stabilize and improve it towards final release. Our main motive is to give you an opportunity to give us feedback (which helps us create better software). If you do not like the way something has been implemented, we would highly appreciate your feedback. If you spot a bug or have compatibility problems in your development environment, you’re advised to inform us so we can fix it. One reason why our software excels is because of community participation in its direct development. We hope you’ll participate.

The preliminary roadmap (which will constantly change for the first few weeks) for this latest version of ReSharper can be found at:

ReSharper 3.0 Roadmap:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+3.0+Roadmap

If you are up to it, and want to take ReSharper 3.0 for a crash-test (no pun intended), you can directly download ReSharper 3.0 at:

ReSharper 3.0 EAP Download:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Download

Test it out and let us know what you think. The more feedback you give us, the more the product will appeal to YOU.

You can discuss the ReSharper EAP in the ReSharper EAP forum found here:

ReSharper EAP Forum: http://www.intellij.net/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=37

David Stennett
Team JetBrains

Just in case NUnit, csUnit, and MbUnit aren’t enough to satisfy your testing needs, we proudly bring to your attention James Kovacs’ Visual Studio Team System Unit (vstsUnit …aka MSTest) plugin for ReSharper. In James’ words:

Over the past few months, I’ve been doing test-driven development (TDD) using VstsUnit (aka MSTest), which ships with Visual Studio Team System. (A client’s choice to use VstsUnit, not mine.) I’m an avid ReSharper user and quite like their unit test runner, which allows you to run NUnit or csUnit tests directly from within Visual Studio. Unfortunately it doesn’t support VstsUnit. When Albert Weinert released MbUnit support for ReSharper a few months back, I realized that JetBrains had an undocumented plugin model for their unit test runner and I could integrate support for VstsUnit into ReSharper. Without further ado, I present to you the VstsUnit Plugin for ReSharper.

Please bring your attention to James’ site where you can nab this plugin for free:

James Kovacs’ Weblog

Installation instructions and known issues can be found on James’ site. Please do go test it out and give James some feedback. It will be to everybody’s benefit to do so.

David Stennett
Team JetBrains