Another maintenance release of ReSharper is here. The release includes a number of bug fixes and a new evaluation model which needs some explanation (but don’t worry, it will only make things easier for you as an evaluator!).

The point is that there are no more evaluation licenses! Just download, install and enjoy it for 30 days! We only ask for one thing: after you’ve tried the software, select Submit Feedback from ReSharper menu and tell us your thoughts.

Grab version 2.5.2 at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/index.html.

On the topic of evaluation licenses, our ReSharper 3.0 EAP has also moved to the new no-license evaluation model. Here’s how it works:

• all EAP builds run under evaluation for 30 days; each EAP build restarts the evaluation period (released about once every two weeks)
• nightly builds can be downloaded, installed and used under the latest EAP evaluation; however, they do not renew the evaluation period
• also, an evaluation period starts when you first start using the software; it does not start and expire on pre-specified dates like it used to do in previous EAPs.

This will provide enough evaluation overlap to span the time between the most stable builds.

Develop with pleasure!
- The ReSharper Team

The ReSharper 3.0 EAP has been in progress for about two weeks now. This is the first post in a series that will look in detail at some of the new features that will be available in this latest version of ReSharper.

The To-do Explorer

In Visual Studio.NET 2005, you can use the Task List window to show comments with the keyword todo in it. However, this only works with files that are open in the IDE; it’s not going to show you TODOs in other parts of your solution that you don’t currently have open, or any other keyword EXCEPT todo.

The Visual Studio.NET 2005 Task List window

In ReSharper 3.0, you get the much more useful To-do Explorer. When you open this window (found in ReSharper -> Windows -> To-do Explorer), by default you see a solution-wide listing of all comments with the prefix NOTE, TODO or BUG.

The new To-do Explorer window

The default keywords that the To-do explorer looks for can be changed or added to by clicking the “To-do settings” icon in the window.

In the settings window, you can create new keywords to search for or edit the existing keywords as you’d like. This could be useful, for example, if you have a references to JIRA tickets in your comments, like:
//PROJ-1655: The following code block was added because of a change request from a client
You could add a pattern to match the keyword “PROJ-####” and see all JIRA tickets mentioned in your code.


Editing keywords in the To-do explorer

These To-dos can also be exported to a text file and can also be grouped to make the To-dos easier to read, so you can find which projects, namespaces, directories, etc … contain To-dos.

The To-do Explorer view options

We’ve blogged about this feature before (searching for things by name, including types, files, methods within a file and more). Scott Cate has listed it as his favorite feature of the day in his blog post ReSharper: Don’t develop without it.

Hope you’re enjoying Ctrl+Shift+N, Scott (and all other users, too)

P.S. On the topic of ReSharper’s price tag, please be aware that we offer Personal Licences to individual ReSharper users. You can save $100!

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