JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

Scientists hypothesize on the existence of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010. They argue pros and cons endlessly, bringing history to the table, and even gamble around the odds of ReSharper running in the new shining Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.

You can know for sure, it does run! Want to know when it will be running for you? Read on!

See how the new Extension Manager happily shows ReSharper as an installed extension, making it a first class citizen in the new Visual Studio shell.

Here, our well-known ReSharper tool windows are shown participating in the improved Visual Studio docking system.

Can you see those unit tests running? Of course not, it’s a screenshot. But rest assured that development pleasure-inducing bits are being cooked up in large integration ovens here at JetBrains.

Next to integration ovens, there is a high-tech lab where die-hard developers in white coats are implanting smartness into ReSharper’s understanding of C# 4. Variance and dynamic, optional parameters and named arguments - all the features of the new C# version are being mercilessly stuffed inside the most intelligent add-in for Visual Studio. Developers perform their cruel experiments with Visual Studio 2008, writing C# 4 code where only the previous version of the language is meant to be used.

Now, you might want to know when all the intelligence of ReSharper will be available for Visual Studio 2010. No need to wait for ReSharper 5.0 to come out! We plan to release preview bits compatible with Visual Studio 2010 for you to play and test in June, and June is just around the corner!

After expanding its functionality in previous releases, ReSharper 4.5 shifts focus to the issues of performance and memory usage. Making the tool agile, robust and responsive – and a bit smarter still – is the main idea behind ReSharper 4.5.

Read about the improvements and enhancements below or watch this Flash demo.

• Performance and memory consumption: When working on large solutions, you will 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 (or don’t!).
• Visual Basic 9 support: ReSharper’s cross-language refactorings and editing experience enhancements now support VB9 code.
• Improved 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 the usage of a class or method straight to its implementation, bypassing its declaration.

Download your free 30-day trial of ReSharper 4.5.

Upgrades from ReSharper 4.0 are free.

Have you ever wanted to really customize ReSharper, just the way you want it?

Now you can build your own, with our brand new ReSharper Configurator. Choose the analysis engine, select the feature packages you need, the supported languages, and even the colors! Go lightweight or feature-rich - it’s all up to you.

Click here to build your ReSharper now: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/build_now.html

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.

JetBrains tools continue to receive recognition and praise: three of them have been named finalists in this year’s Jolt Awards!

ReSharper, our intelligent add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that you love so much, was honored as one of the five best Development Environments.

In the Change and Configuration Management category, the finalists included TeamCity, our distributed build management and continuous integration server.

And last but not least, dotTrace, our super-fast and efficient .NET profiling tool, was picked by Jolt judges as one of the best five Utilities.

Best of all, each of these products still has a shot at winning the big kahuna - the Jolt Excellence award, or maybe a Jolt Productivity award! We’ll keep you posted.

We thank you, our customers, for making our products a success.
Keep developing with JetBrains - and with pleasure!

Our .NET products, ReSharper and dotTrace, are being developed as we speak. Yet we do not speak about that enough.

It recently came to our attention that our .NET developers are dying to tell you about the goodies they’ve been able to come up with, design and code. They want to share their heartwarming stories of additional application performance analysis tools, new intelligent context actions and ever smarter null reference handling with, well, anyone who’ll listen.

So, we’ve decided we’ll be bringing you tittillating news bits about dotTrace and ReSharper as they keep coming in.

Stay Tuned!*
  
*Tales From the Development Crypt coming soon to a .NET blog near you.

In the next few weeks, JetBrains .NET gurus are taking up a tour, providing a great opportunity for you to chat with leading ReSharper and dotTrace developers, watch demos of JetBrains .NET products, receive cute R# T-shirts, and with a little luck, win free product licenses!
 
We’re exhibiting at the following events:
 

	PDC October 27-31, 2008, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California Booth #801, JetBrains
	Microsoft Tech•Ed November 10-14, 2008, CCIB, Barcelona, Spain Stand #E3, JetBrains

 
See you really soon!

Good news again: we have released ReSharper 4.1! This minor version is highlighted by:
 

• Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Enhanced ASP.NET experience
• Improved performance and usability: quicker solution load, optimized Unit Test Explorer behavior, and more
• New minor features, including name editing in code generation UI, generating backing fields for implemented interface properties, highlighting usages of XML tags and attributes
• Bug fixes related to naming suggestions, moving regions in File Structure, Rename refactoring, error highlighting false positives, property generation, quick-fixes etc.

 
See Release Notes for details on bug fixes, cosmetics, new features, resolved performance and usability problems.
 
Download this new release now!