JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

The 19th Jolt Awards were finally announced last week. Our own .NET productivity tools, dotTrace and ReSharper, were named recipients of two Productivity Awards!

ReSharper was one of the top three Development Environments.
dotTrace was recognized as a top productivity Utility.

Thanks again for making our products a success, folks. Keep developing with JetBrains, productivity and pleasure!

Your wait is almost over: ReSharper 4.5 has gone public beta, and the official release is just a few weeks away!
 
After significantly expanding the set of ReSharper features in previous releases, we’ve shifted focus to the issues of performance and memory usage. Making the tool more agile, robust and responsive was our main goal when developing ReSharper 4.5.
 
ReSharper 4.5 brings a wide-ranging set of improvements that go way beyond performance enhancements:

• Performance and memory consumption: When working on large solutions, you’ll feel a great deal of difference between ReSharper 4.0 and 4.5.
• New solution-wide warnings and suggestions: Analyze usage of non-private types and type members within your whole solution.
• Visual Basic 9 support: ReSharper’s cross-language refactorings and editing experience enhancements now provide support for VB9 code.
• Extended setup for naming conventions, which are now supported by all ReSharper features.
• New Inline Field refactoring and enhancements in existing refactorings.
• Go to Implementation: Go from usage of a class or method straight to its end implementation, bypassing abstract classes and/or interfaces.

 
To get your hands on the public beta, download it now!

The list of global software conferences has recently been extended with a new exciting member - the Great Indian Developer Summit, which will host the second edition of Great Indian Developer Awards (GIDA) this year.

Celebrating software development product excellence, GIDA is India’s premiere awards event with 100+ nominees shortlisted for this year’s upcoming edition, the event’s second so far.

Our own ReSharper was chosen as one of nine nominees in the Development Environments category, along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Oracle JDeveloper, and six other outstanding development tools.

Other categories included Design and Modeling, Change and Configuration Management, Collaboration Solution Testing, Security, Content Management, Web Development, Mobile Development, Frameworks, and Database.

The winners will be announced and honored at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2009 to be held on April 25, 2009, in Bangalore, India. The awards jury is comprised of distinguished executives, seasoned industry professionals, and internationally recognized academia.

For more information on the awards and to vote, see official GIDA web site.