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ReSharper 4.0: General Preview

January 14th, 2008 by Jura Gorohovsky

We’re pretty close to launching ReSharper 4.0 EAP and now is the right time to introduce the long-awaited enhancements this major version will provide.

These can be legitimately divided into two simple categories:

  • Visual Studio 2008 and C# 3.0 support
  • Well… everything beyond that


Support for C# 3.0
ReSharper 3.1 already provides support for the Visual Studio 2008 environment. Version 4.0 completes this support to include the new C# features, among which are implicitly typed variables, anonymous types, object initializers, extension methods, lambda expressions and LINQ. This requires substantial updates in several major components of ReSharper functionality, which will cover:

  • Code Analysis;
  • Context Actions and Quick-Fixes;
  • Code Completion;
  • Refactorings (ReSharper 4.0 will introduce Convert to Extension Method, Convert to Automatic Property, and Convert Anonymous Type to Named, among others).


Other Enhancements

  • Code Cleanup – a new tool to ensure compliance with code guidelines and enhance code structure;
  • Complete Statement – another new feature that will complete language constructs and get you ready to write the next statement;
  • External annotations to help cover referenced assemblies while performing null-reference analysis;
  • Extended language support as VB.NET gets the full-fledged set of refactorings;
  • New quick-fixes and context actions are made available for XAML files.


The wait is almost over – ReSharper 4.0 EAP is planned to open this month! Stay tuned for details.

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20 Responses to “ReSharper 4.0: General Preview”

  1. Yuval Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Great News!
    Will there be a minimal upgrade cost option for non corporate developers?
    I wasn’t able to afford the last upgrade and never upgraded to 3.0 :(

  2. Brian Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    This is truly great news! I’ll be fasting until it comes out.

  3. Jianwei Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Will the No. 1 issue discussed on forum ( memory leak issue) get fixed.

  4. Simone Busoli Says:
    January 19th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    These are great news, I’m missing support for C# 3.0 a lot. Can’t wait to install it.

  5. Simone Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    One thing that is missing is a support for Silverlight code-behind classes. Hope this will be included into R# 4.0 for VS2008

  6. Josh Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    I can\’t wait for R# 4.0, please release soon, all of my projects are VS.NET 2008 and I am missing the R# Feature Set!!!

  7. Ken Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 am

    I’ve been using extension methods since September, and I would sell my soul to the evil empire to get a version of Resharper that finally stops flagging all uses of extension methods as errors! Next time, please consider supporting the most tempting/simpler new features in an “EEAP”!

  8. duckworth Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    I am counting down the days!

  9. Jason Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    hope performance can be improved…

  10. simon mourier Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    Hi,
    I am very happy for this new release. R# is truly a *wonderful* tool. I deeply hope you will have fixed some memory leak issues you had previously (500M of VM at the end of the day). I will be happy to test for this if possible.

  11. Jura Gorohovsky Says:
    January 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Yuval: I guess you can upgrade to 3.1 for 119USD with subsequent free upgrade to 4.0 (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy/#upgradeuser)

  12. Peter St Angelo Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    Hello,

    When will the beta/ EAP for version 4 be available?

  13. Eugene Le Roux Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    We are waiting in anticipation, any ideas on when this will be available?

  14. ReSharper 4.0 Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Some feed back as to when EAP 4 be available. Lack of information is not helping!!!

  15. Heribert Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    It makes no sense to combine a superb product with mediocre marketing.

    I really wish Ilya was working for ScottGu! :)

  16. Sachman Bhatti Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 3:07 am

    Every day I check the EAP page. Every day. It’s January 31st. I check again.

    Still not Christmas.

  17. Ralax Says:
    February 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 am

    When we can use the version4.0?

  18. Brad Bellomo Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    They still have a date of January 2008 posted on the web.
    http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Download

  19. Justin Bennett Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Roll on the release of V4, I’m working in VS.NET08 (v3.1)and the memory leaks and impact on performance are shocking. As I only bought the product a few months ago will I be eligible for a free upgrade to a version that works?

  20. Pete Newton Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Great tool but performance is a killer. Need to restart VS08 every 2 or 3 hours. Please address this.

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