JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

Tonight in London Hadi Hariri and Sergey Coox have unveiled the early bits of the upcoming ReSharper 6 in front of DevCon London and JetBrains Community Night attendees.

While you can be sure that more exciting announcements on the new ReSharper functionality is ahead, one thing is crystal clear: ReSharper 6 will provide first-class support for JavaScript and CSS.

While there are currently no public builds available incorporating JavaScript support, you can expect ReSharper 6 Early Access Program to open in November, and November is very soon!

Meanwhile, please bombard ReSharper issue tracker with your feature requests detailing how you would like the most intelligent Visual Studio extension to support JavaScript and CSS!

Cheers!

UPDATE. For more details on ReSharper 6, watch the ReSharper 6 tag here on the .NET tools blog.

A couple of weeks ago we posted a blog entry on known issues in ReSharper 5.0 and workarounds, and today we’re taking the next logical step by opening a new Early Access Program for ReSharper 5.1 to fix them. If you’ve having issues with ReSharper 5.0, please start downloading ReSharper 5.1 nightly builds: it should feel much better.

Here’s a quick list of fixes that the Early Access Program presumably brings:

• Typing latency in ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC is considerably reduced.
• Code-behind files in ASP.NET projects don’t disappear when saving files anymore.
• Splitting Visual Studio text editor tabs does not result in ReSharper features disappearing from one or both tabs.
• Silverlight 4 support is fixed: no more error highlighting when referencing Silverlight 4 code from a regular .NET assembly.
• Encoding issues when working with XAML files are resolved.

If something goes wrong, please report issues to our YouTrack project.

As announced a week ago, we’re launching Early Access Program for the new JetBrains .NET tool, dotCover! If you missed the news, check out the initial dotCover announcement and Hadi Hariri’s introductory blog post about code coverage for .NET and using dotCover.

Download early dotCover builds from jetbrains.net, use them and vote for them. Report bugs and request features using dotCover issue tracker. If you have product-related questions (we bet you do), ask them in dotCover community or on Twitter.

Enjoy!

The first half of 2010 turns out to be pretty fruitful for .NET developers who use JetBrains tools. In addition to upcoming major releases of ReSharper and dotTrace, we’re extending our .NET toolset with dotCover — a code coverage tool.

Many of our customers consider unit tests a vital part of their development workflow. It doesn’t come as a surprise that we want to let them easily see how successful they are in covering their applications with tests. To bring an extremely comfortable code coverage experience to developers, the initial version of dotCover will introduce the following features:

• Integration with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.
• .NET projects coverage in Visual Studio.
• Test coverage through tight integration with unit test running engine in ReSharper 5.0.
• Navigation to source code from coverage report.
• Highlighting for covered and uncovered code in Visual Studio code editor.
• Navigation from source code to unit tests that cover it.

We’re thrilled to announce that some of these features will be available via Early Access Program that we’re launching next week. Stay tuned for an additional launch announcement here on the .NET Tools Blog and follow us on Twitter.

We’re happy to finally provide public access to early bits of the renewed ReSharper!

Starting today, you can download nightly ReSharper builds, and the first one is already there for you.

Note that this is only pre-release software. Nightly builds are assembled automatically every night without proper alpha testing, and we can’t guarantee that they will even run on your machine. However, we hope that by participating in this Early Access Program, you can help us gradually improve product quality up to a level that is proper for final release.

Some additional notes on this EAP:

• At this time, we’re only publishing ReSharper builds for VS 2008. We’ll start publishing VS 2010-compatible builds as soon as we verify that ReSharper works decently with VS 2010 Beta 2.
• The UI for many new and improved ReSharper features is not yet finalized. Shortcuts and titles may change as well.

Once you have downloaded, installed, and used a nightly build for a while, please vote for it in the nightly builds page so that other users are able to judge on its quality. If you’re willing to report a bug or feature request, please do so using our bug tracker (here’s how it works).

To further comment on the quality of individual nightly builds please use jetbrains.resharper.eap newsgroup or its web mirror in our development community.

To get an idea of improvements and new features that we’re starting to reveal during this EAP, take a look at the recently published ReSharper 5 Overview.

Happy early accessing!