JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Before switching completely to some new tasks, we’re releasing IntelliJ IDEA 11.0.2, another maintenance update for the latest IntelliJ IDEA 11.

This update fixes some most annoying bugs and performance problems found. Check out the full release notes for the list of resolved issues and download the update. If you’re already running version 11 (or 11.0.1) use the “Check for Update” action from the IDE and install the patch.

Develop with pleasure and stay tuned for exciting news coming soon.
-The IntelliJ IDEA Team

This week we’re releasing a new Early Access Preview build for IntelliJ IDEA 11.0.2, which is also the Release Candidate for the new version. Besides the usual amount of bugfixes, a noteworthy change is support for new versions of Google Chrome in the JavaScript debugger plugin.

You can download IntelliJ IDEA 11.0.2 Release Candidate from the EAP page.

Today we’ve published the first Early Access Preview build for the next bugfix update of IntelliJ IDEA 11. The main highlights include:

• Perforce integration uses ‘p4 move’ command for moves and renames when available;
• Spring integration performance improvements;
• Other bugfixes listed in the release notes.

You can download the new build from the EAP page.

How often do you use ‘Go To Class/File/Symbol’ feature in IntelliJ IDEA? Pretty often I would guess. But do you know everything you can do with it? Let me go through a couple of often overlooked gems.

Do you know that when you search for file or class you can preview an image (Ctrl-Shift-I) or see a quick doc (Ctrl-Q)?

It is also possible to open multiple items in the editor (multiselect with Ctrl or Shift) or run multiple selected tests right from the search (Ctrl-Shift-F10).

And you can open all search results in the ‘Find’ tool-window to process them one by one later.

Did I mention your favorite feature? No? Please, share it with everyone!

At JetBrains we not only bring you new powerful features that make your life better, but also take care to polish the good old stuff to perfection. Let’s take a look at the Move refactoring for ActionScript classes, Flex components and all other types of top-level declarations (namespaces, functions, variables and constants), that has just got a little smarter. By the way, this refactoring also works for inner declarations (also known as helpers or file-local declarations), defined in ActionScript file out of the package statement.

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Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA 11 provides an integrated Play Framework console?

Start it from “Tools” menu, complete Play! commands, use command history, analyze output.
Play! with pleasure!

Hello guys! Just recently we’ve published an update to our Flash/Flex Profiler plugin that gives you a powerful and easy to use toolset for profiling of Flash-based applications in IntelliJ IDEA.

Let us give you a brief overview of what you can do with it.

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What could be a better way for the IntelliJ IDEA team to conclude the year 2011 than to release a bugfix update? And that’s exactly what we’re doing.

To upgrade to the new version, simply use the “Check for Update” action if you’re already running version 11, or grab the complete installer from the download page. And of course, the release notes for the new build are also available.

Happy New Year, and see you again in 2012!

When working with big projects we always come back to 10-20 items/files where we do the most of our work.

IntelliJ IDEA helps you collecting all these items in one place — ‘Favorites’. It’s easy to add a file, a class or a method to the Favorites by simply pressing Alt+Shift+F. You can also drag and drop items to the Favorites.

And now with ‘Favorites’ being a separate tool-window, just press Alt+2 (or Cmd+2) whenever you need to access one of your precious items again.

Do you know how to navigate from a class to its test and back again or how to create a FlexUnit test quickly with IntelliJ IDEA 11? Let me tell you.

First of all make sure that flexunit.swc is within your module dependencies:

and just press Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) or select Navigate | Test from main menu:

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