JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

One more great ReSharper overview was published by Paul Laudeman at his blog. Using ReSharper as an essential part of your TDD toolkit describes ReSharper’s unit testing support for NUnit test framework and a number of other features such as code generation and navigation. For those who haven’t tried this functionality yet and want to learn more, we recommend reading the Unit Test Runner description from the ReSharper’s help.

By the way, we are going to add ‘friendly’ blogs to our blogroll. So, everyone who is blogging about .Net in general and ReSharper in particular can send us a link to the personal blog using the ‘Share your knowledge’ text box on the right side bar.

It’s nice to read stories from guys like Jeffrey Palermo. We highly recommend reading his Bread and butter Resharper post to everyone who uses ReSharper. It took him some time to discover the better part of ReSharper’s benefits, but seeing how he says, “I can’t imagine coding without it now”, we think it was worth it after all!

Actually, that’s why we started this blog - to get this sort of valuable information out so you can take advantage of it and not be left out.

Most of the functionality Jeffrey describes is also covered in detail on ReSharper Home. Please use the links below to learn more about these features:

• Optimize usings and Reformat code - see Code Formatting
• Find code file, Find file, Find usages, Find subclass (a.k.a. Go to inheritor), Show class Members, Recent files - see Navigation&Search
• Context-sensitive refactoring - see Refactoring
• Error analysis, Context help, and “Line-level refactoring” (also known as Quick-Fixes and Context Actions)- see Error Highlighting and Quick Fixes
• Live templates - see Code Templates
• Name suggestions - see Code Completion
• Generate Code - see Code Generation

And of course, much more information can be found in ReSharper online help.

JetBrains is pleased to announce the wide public beta release of TeamCity 1.0. It is an integrated team environment that enables running and monitoring of build processes, and facilitates integration of changes for developers working on both Java and .Net platforms. The top TeamCity features include:

• Continuous Integration Support - integrate and remotely test code changes many times a day utilizing NUnit (.NET) or JUnit (Java) testing frameworks.
• Effective Build Management allows for running builds using popular NAnt, MSBuild, Ant, and Maven build tools and immediately provides information about build results via web interface or Windows tray notifier. In case of build failure, a developer can take responsibility for this and other team members are notified that the problem is being solved.
• Powerful and Intelligent Build Grid leverages the workload of computers which may run multiple builds/tests at a time, both for single and multiple projects. Each computer included into the build grid can define its own environmental parameters and TeamCity intelligently distributes builds among the machines.
• Web-based Administration - developers and their managers can easily get build and test reports, see the current build status, and configure all the necessary build settings using a convenient Web interface. Build history and all the resulting build artifacts can also be managed on the server.

Like other JetBrains products, TeamCity is created by and for professional developers. It is already being used by our own teams every day to run IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, and even its own builds.
To download TeamCity beta and learn more about its features, visit www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/.