Martijn Veken


Just having
some fun with .NET

Resharper 2.0 is available now!

My favourite tool in Visual Studio 2003 has always been JetBrains' Resharper. A couple of months ago we converted our application to the .NET 2.0 framework and Visual Studio 2005. Although VS 2005 now has some of the refactoring and analysis features that Resharper offered, it is nowhere near as powerful. So I was really happy to see that JetBrains was developing Resharper 2.0 for VS 2005. That happiness rapidly disappeared after installing the beta. It was really buggy and therefore impossible to use.

The last time I installed a beta was just 2 or 3 weeks ago and it still was not good enough to use in my daily work. The biggest problem was the static code analysis that got really confused when the same classname was used in different namespaces. Meanwhile I tried other tools like Omnicore's JustCode, but they just aren't as good as Resharper.

Today I read on Scott Guthrie's Blog that the final verion had been released, so I decided to give a last try. And guess what... it works perfectly. Nomore stange analysis errors, no more empty code completion boxes... And the best thing is: 1.5 users get a free upgrade to 2.0!

So, I'm a happy coder again

Comments

Chi Wai Man said:

wow finally then. I almost gave up reshaper after trying several beta version.
# May 25, 2006 2:34 AM

Martijn Veken said:

I think they lost a lot of (potential) customers with those crappy beta versions.
But I've been using it a couple of days now and the only flaw that i noticed is that it didn't immediatley detect the settings class in the code analysis, but that was solved by building the solution. So it's highly recommended by me again!
# May 25, 2006 11:21 AM

David Stennett said:

Glad the final release is working out for you guys -- please *do* keep in mind that beta does in fact mean BETA ... which means people are going to run into troubles -- the more troubles we find in the beta, the sooner we can get out the final release without those issues. Thanks again!

David Stennett
JetBrains
# June 2, 2006 3:31 AM
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