We just released ReSharper 4.5, minor version aimed at performance, stability, compatibility and less memory usage. All the same great features plus some nice additions, free for owners of ReSharper 4.x licenses. You can read more about what we were doing to improve quality of our product for your pleasure.
Download ReSharper 4.5 and enjoy your productivity boost!
From now on, we are going to focus on ReSharper 5 with the main goal to support Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4. But that is not the whole story about next major version! I will be blogging about ReSharper 5 cool new features during our way to the next release.
Develop with pleasure!
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Showing posts with label release. Show all posts
08 April 2009
09 June 2008
ReSharper 4.0 Gone Diamond
Here it is, ReSharper 4.0. After faceting our diamond, we are finally ready to release it!
In this new release, C# 3.0 is supported in all its power -- lambdas, extension methods, language integrated queries (aka LINQ), object and collection initializers, anonymous types, automatic properties and partial methods. Ah, of course implicitly typed locals ("vars") are there to argue for or against using them. I already wrote about some of the features, and you can find more information on the New Features page. Here is small final touch about how deeeeep we dived into the language: try introducing parameter from expression which uses local variables and play with checkboxes for local variables.
Except for new language support, we also improved our product in many other ways:
I can't really enumerate all the improvements in ReSharper 4.0 made during last year. It would take too much space on this blog. Try it yourself! Feel the difference!
develop.With(pleasure => pleasure * 4.0);
In this new release, C# 3.0 is supported in all its power -- lambdas, extension methods, language integrated queries (aka LINQ), object and collection initializers, anonymous types, automatic properties and partial methods. Ah, of course implicitly typed locals ("vars") are there to argue for or against using them. I already wrote about some of the features, and you can find more information on the New Features page. Here is small final touch about how deeeeep we dived into the language: try introducing parameter from expression which uses local variables and play with checkboxes for local variables.
Except for new language support, we also improved our product in many other ways:
- We added new powerful refactorings and greatly improved existing.
- We extended typing helpers with CamelCase completion and Complete Statement. Now you can achieve more in less time.
- We analysed many .NET Framework assemblies for you, and maked them up for you with CanBeNull/NotNull attributes. And ReSharper's value analysis raised to the next level.
- We tested it with numerious other addons, plugins, SDKs and packages. And improved ReSharper's integration into Visual Studio ecosystem by a wonderful degree.
- Of course we fixed a lot of problems and eliminated many performance bottlenecks.
I can't really enumerate all the improvements in ReSharper 4.0 made during last year. It would take too much space on this blog. Try it yourself! Feel the difference!
develop.With(pleasure => pleasure * 4.0);
03 June 2008
ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate
After extensive testing and fixing problems in Beta we are ready to publish Release Candidate build. Some critical fixes can still happen in this branch, but otherwise we are almost ready to release.
If you are using any nightly build or beta, please upgrade to Release Candidate. If by chance you find a problem that prevents ReSharper 4 from being used on a regular basis, please tell us! You can submit request into our issue tracking system, and we will try hard to fix any critical problem, if we can reproduce it. So please, please, please, include as much information about your environment, projects and source files as you can.
Thank you very much for participating in our Early Access Program!
If you are using any nightly build or beta, please upgrade to Release Candidate. If by chance you find a problem that prevents ReSharper 4 from being used on a regular basis, please tell us! You can submit request into our issue tracking system, and we will try hard to fix any critical problem, if we can reproduce it. So please, please, please, include as much information about your environment, projects and source files as you can.
Thank you very much for participating in our Early Access Program!
21 May 2008
ReSharper 4 Beta
Did you use one of the nightly builds we publish for several months already? If you thought it is dangerous for you to run early development bits, today we present you ReSharper 4 Beta, which we optimized, stabilized and verified to be of better quality than ordinary nightlies. It is not complete product yet, we have some more work to do in various areas of product, but otherwise this build is pretty stable and usable.
C# 3.0
This major language update was not an easy thing to support. It was tough to make it right, when tool knows the code inside out and understands every detail of what is written. There are many little things that you probably will not even notice, but which were well thought out and implemented to provide flawless code editing, navigating and refactoring experience.
I'd like to highlight some features: global completion for extension methods, which inserts required namespace imports; optional parameter info in form of lambda, like "IEnumerable<string> => string" instead of Func<IEnumerable<string>,string>; refactorings specific to new language features, like creating named type from anonymous one or converting static method to extension method and updating usages.
.NET Framework Annotations
Since version 2.5 we have "Null Reference Analysis", which is capable to warn developer about potential NullReferenceException in the code. To aid this analysis, developers can annotate methods with NotNull or CanBeNull attributes, which ReSharper then uses to initialize variable states. That's cool enough by itself, but there are thousands of methods you can't annotate in source: the .NET Framework assemblies. We took up a challenge and implemented the way to annotate libraries with external annotations. And we made second step, too. We annotated most of .NET Framework (56 assemblies!), so that you can get potential NullReferenceException warning on the code like (SomeStruct)Marshal.PtrToStructure(...);
Completion-on-steroids
That's something I like most. No, wait, I love new refactorings, recent edits window, to-do browser understanding of NotImplementedException, and all other features mentioned on the official site.
Two things: "CamelHumps Completion" and "Complete Statement" bring my coding speed to a new level. I don't know what it would be called in Jedi hierarchy, but it seems to me that I can create code withlightning teleportation speed.
ASP.NET speed-up
The last, but not least thing I'd like to mention is our raid against ASP.NET problems. It is something that had speed and memory problems through all versions of ReSharper, and we finally managed to identify them, and fix. Now, if you develop ASP.NET web sites, go try ReSharper 4 Beta.
Download
In this release we bring you the single installer for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, as well as all editions we have. Download, install, select "Free Evaluation", choose edition - and you are ready to be productive.
C# 3.0
This major language update was not an easy thing to support. It was tough to make it right, when tool knows the code inside out and understands every detail of what is written. There are many little things that you probably will not even notice, but which were well thought out and implemented to provide flawless code editing, navigating and refactoring experience.
I'd like to highlight some features: global completion for extension methods, which inserts required namespace imports; optional parameter info in form of lambda, like "IEnumerable<string> => string" instead of Func<IEnumerable<string>,string>; refactorings specific to new language features, like creating named type from anonymous one or converting static method to extension method and updating usages.
.NET Framework Annotations
Since version 2.5 we have "Null Reference Analysis", which is capable to warn developer about potential NullReferenceException in the code. To aid this analysis, developers can annotate methods with NotNull or CanBeNull attributes, which ReSharper then uses to initialize variable states. That's cool enough by itself, but there are thousands of methods you can't annotate in source: the .NET Framework assemblies. We took up a challenge and implemented the way to annotate libraries with external annotations. And we made second step, too. We annotated most of .NET Framework (56 assemblies!), so that you can get potential NullReferenceException warning on the code like (SomeStruct)Marshal.PtrToStructure(...);
Completion-on-steroids
That's something I like most. No, wait, I love new refactorings, recent edits window, to-do browser understanding of NotImplementedException, and all other features mentioned on the official site.
Two things: "CamelHumps Completion" and "Complete Statement" bring my coding speed to a new level. I don't know what it would be called in Jedi hierarchy, but it seems to me that I can create code with
if(CVM.I.SV(SCV.FU <Ctrl-Shift-Enter>When I hit keys like above, it is completed into:
if (CodeViewManager.Instance.SupportsView(StandardCodeViews.FindUsages))And caret is inside braces for me to type in the body of the "if" statement.
{
}
ASP.NET speed-up
The last, but not least thing I'd like to mention is our raid against ASP.NET problems. It is something that had speed and memory problems through all versions of ReSharper, and we finally managed to identify them, and fix. Now, if you develop ASP.NET web sites, go try ReSharper 4 Beta.
Download
In this release we bring you the single installer for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, as well as all editions we have. Download, install, select "Free Evaluation", choose edition - and you are ready to be productive.
14 February 2008
ReSharper 4 Nightly Builds - Are You Geek Enough?
-- When ReSharper 4 will be ready?
-- It is ready when it is ready!
We in ReSharper team want to make sure that C# 3.0 language is fully supported by the product. We spend a lot of time on features and look deep into details of every language quirk. You know, compilers and language standards may have very strange relationships, sometimes very weird. Still, we want to ensure maximum pleasure developing in C# 3.0 when ReSharper is ready. And it is not ready yet.
However, due to the popular demand amongst professional developers using ReSharper and C# 3.0, we are going to open nightly builds to the public. That is, not fully fledged tool, but rather our current development bits. Which could be very well broken, buggy, hanging, slow and useless at times. We will not take any responsibility if the tool wipes out all your source code! But you have a version control system in place, don't you?
So, are you geek enough to take the pill and try ReSharper 4 early builds? Read the ReSharper 4 EAP notes before you decide!
If you feel you can survive pre-release build, you can go to ReSharper 4 Nightly Builds and download your copy of ReSharper development bits.
Good luck!
31 January 2008
ReSharper 4 EAP Will Start in Two Weeks
ReSharper 4 Early Access Program will start within next two weeks, before Feb 15.
The delay is caused mostly by the complexity of lambda implementation, which we really want to do right so that the power of C# 3.0 and ReSharper can be utilized at a full rate. Now, when we have lambdas working, we will finish with LINQ processing, polish the code a bit and start nightly builds.
I'm going to post some feature highlights here during that period. This will cover C# 3.0 new features support, new features like Complete Statement and Recent Edits, improvements in intellisense like CamelHumps completion and other.
Stay tuned.
The delay is caused mostly by the complexity of lambda implementation, which we really want to do right so that the power of C# 3.0 and ReSharper can be utilized at a full rate. Now, when we have lambdas working, we will finish with LINQ processing, polish the code a bit and start nightly builds.
I'm going to post some feature highlights here during that period. This will cover C# 3.0 new features support, new features like Complete Statement and Recent Edits, improvements in intellisense like CamelHumps completion and other.
Stay tuned.
20 December 2007
ReSharper 3.1 is Released!
We are proud to announce the release of ReSharper 3.1. The new version not only brings many bugfixes, improved stability and new features, but also provides the opportunity of free upgrade to v4.0 for new purchases.
This minor - but extremely upgrade-worthy - release extends support for various technologies and languages including ASP.NET, VB.NET and XAML, and introduces the amazingly powerful Solution-Wide Analysis. The new feature lets you instantly find compilation errors in your whole solution - not just in the currently opened file.
Download it now and review release notes.
This minor - but extremely upgrade-worthy - release extends support for various technologies and languages including ASP.NET, VB.NET and XAML, and introduces the amazingly powerful Solution-Wide Analysis. The new feature lets you instantly find compilation errors in your whole solution - not just in the currently opened file.
Download it now and review release notes.
07 September 2007
ReSharper 3.0.3 EAP and Solution-wide Error Analysis
The ReSharper team is actively working on next version with C# 3.0 support, but we are still fixing things for ReSharper 3.0 and even add new features!
Among with various bug-fixes, ReSharper 3.0.3 features "Global Error Analysis" feature that finds compilation errors in your solution on-the-fly. It was available in early ReSharper 3.0 EAP builds, but then we decided that it is not mature enough to put it into release. Now, we've improved it and are going to include it in ReSharper 3.0.3 update.
You can get ReSharper 3.0.3 EAP build at download page. Take a look at post about Early Access Program, if you want to learn more about participating.
To enable analysis of all errors in solution, double-click a red crossing lines symbol at the very right of the status bar and check the "Analyze errors in whole solution" checkbox. Note, that it is per-solution setting. It may take quite a while to analyze your solution for the first time (you can continue your work), but once the solution has been analyzed only those files that may be affected by the changes made are reanalyzed. Tool window with all errors in your solution can be opened using ReSharper | Windows | Errors in Solution menu command. Also, next/previous error command walks through all solution errors, if solution-wide error analysis is enabled.
We would like to hear from you about this feature! Do you like it or not? Does it work fine for you? Do you have any problems? You can leave comments to this post, or drop a message in our EAP newsgroup. Thanks in advance!
Among with various bug-fixes, ReSharper 3.0.3 features "Global Error Analysis" feature that finds compilation errors in your solution on-the-fly. It was available in early ReSharper 3.0 EAP builds, but then we decided that it is not mature enough to put it into release. Now, we've improved it and are going to include it in ReSharper 3.0.3 update.
You can get ReSharper 3.0.3 EAP build at download page. Take a look at post about Early Access Program, if you want to learn more about participating.
To enable analysis of all errors in solution, double-click a red crossing lines symbol at the very right of the status bar and check the "Analyze errors in whole solution" checkbox. Note, that it is per-solution setting. It may take quite a while to analyze your solution for the first time (you can continue your work), but once the solution has been analyzed only those files that may be affected by the changes made are reanalyzed. Tool window with all errors in your solution can be opened using ReSharper | Windows | Errors in Solution menu command. Also, next/previous error command walks through all solution errors, if solution-wide error analysis is enabled.
We would like to hear from you about this feature! Do you like it or not? Does it work fine for you? Do you have any problems? You can leave comments to this post, or drop a message in our EAP newsgroup. Thanks in advance!
29 June 2007
ReSharper Critical Update 3.0.1 is Out
As you've probably noticed, we had some nasty bugs which prevented some people from enjoying great new features of ReSharper 3.0. We addressed most of the critical issues in about a week and here is the result: ReSharper 3.0.1 which you can get on the official download page.
If you had problems with ASP.NET user controls, To-do Explorer, Unit Testing or any of these bugs -- you may want to give another try with ReSharper 3.0.1
If you had problems with ASP.NET user controls, To-do Explorer, Unit Testing or any of these bugs -- you may want to give another try with ReSharper 3.0.1
21 June 2007
19 June 2007
ReSharper 3.0 for C# Developer
While I have a few spare minutes before reviewing another document being built for web site, marketing and such, I'd like to share brief list of new features in ReSharper 3.0 that will help C# developers to be even more productive. This list is not complete and doesn't go into details about ASP.NET support or XML and XAML features. Instead, these are core C# language productivity boosters that can be used immediately in any C# project.
Go to Symbol -- navigate to any type, field, method, property or event by its name. Of course, camels are here with their humps ready to save you some typing.
Go to next or previous error -- skip warnings and suggestions and put caret immediately on the red code.
Automatic type member layout -- sort and group fields, constructors, properties, inner types, members implementing interface and other members when your reformat code. You can specify custom code layouting patterns in options dialog.
Smart Completion -- smart-complete type arguments and type parameters, infer types and suggest applicable symbols. Also, a nice little helper to give the name to unnamed exception in catch block when smart-completing in place where Exception is expected.
Advanced type choosing -- in refactorings and other places where you have to enter type name ReSharper now provides experience similar to Go to Type.
Find symbols referenced in type or method -- useful for getting big picture about what is using inside a type or method, and drill-down to details in familiar Find Usages style.
Find dependent code -- an advanced version of former Find Module Usages command, which is capable of searching code depending on specific project throughout the solution. If you need to find how particular assembly reference is used (or not used), invoke it on reference in Solution Explorer.
Filter found usages of attributes -- attributes has two distinct categories of places where they are used. One is where they are applied to an entity and the other is where they are analysed via GetCustomAttributes() methods. If you work with attributes a lot, you will find new filter in Find Usages saving you a lot of browsing time.
Highlight usages of expression -- select expression and see where the same expression is used in a method or in a file.
Improved Type Hiearchy -- member preview pane for selected type and two new view modes for deep hierarchies. One mode shows instantiatable types of the hierarchy as roots and their bases as subnodes. The other shows leaf interfaces - those that have only classes as derived types.
Moving things around -- no need to copy/paste code in order to move statement few lines below, move out of "if" statement or push into "for" loop. Much like manual member reordering, which of course still works. Can reorder enum members, though it is not always safe - know what you are doing. Reorders parameters though not changing call sites - thus not a refactoring. Works in XML to reorder nodes too.
Generating equality -- when generating Equals & GetHashCode, you can now optionally generate equality and inequality operators, implement strongly typed IEquatable interface.
Improved Stack Trace Explorer -- now highlights types, methods and source code paths, deals better with broken stacktraces, works for localized stacktraces. Also doesn't show "paste" dialog - less one key to hit.
Generate from Solution Explorer -- hit Alt-Ins while you are on the folder, file or project in solution explorer and bring instant New File From Template menu. Combine with new Locate in Solution Explorer action to find your currently open file in Solution.
Unit Test Explorer -- browse all unit tests in solution, form arbitrary set of tests, multiple sessions with different sets (with simultaneous run!), better output presentation, and the foundation for more features in future versions.
To-do Explorer -- keeps an up-to-date list of comments matching specified patterns for the whole solution, like "TODO:", "BUG:" , "To John:", "Don't forget to remove it before release!" and so on. Processes comments in C#, VB.NET, XML, XAML and ASP.NET pages (both HTML and code).
XML support -- enables almost all editor enhancement in XML files, like expand/shrink selection, highlight and navigate to matching tag, move tags, split and join, replace tags and attributes. Provides type completion and can automatically insert assembly qualification to avoid annoying typing in files like app.config.
Custom string.Format methods -- tell ReSharper about your own format-like methods and get full featured analysis, context actions and quick fixes for them.
New code inspections -- more checks for redundancy, useful suggestions and warnings. Supports #pragma directives and project settings to suppress warnings.
New quick fixes and context actions -- less manual typing, more focus on your primary task. New quick fixes provide alternative ways to fix errors, remove redundancies and deal with type parameters and constaints. New context actions give you more power for ad-hoc code transformations.
So, these are highlights. Complete list will be available short after ReSharper 3.0 is released - either on official site or here, in my blog. There are many subtle changes and nice little additions that make up the product. I don't know some of them myself! But I strongly feel that ReSharper 3.0 is another step up to the ideal development environment.
Develop with pleasure!
Go to Symbol -- navigate to any type, field, method, property or event by its name. Of course, camels are here with their humps ready to save you some typing.
Go to next or previous error -- skip warnings and suggestions and put caret immediately on the red code.
Automatic type member layout -- sort and group fields, constructors, properties, inner types, members implementing interface and other members when your reformat code. You can specify custom code layouting patterns in options dialog.
Smart Completion -- smart-complete type arguments and type parameters, infer types and suggest applicable symbols. Also, a nice little helper to give the name to unnamed exception in catch block when smart-completing in place where Exception is expected.
Advanced type choosing -- in refactorings and other places where you have to enter type name ReSharper now provides experience similar to Go to Type.
Find symbols referenced in type or method -- useful for getting big picture about what is using inside a type or method, and drill-down to details in familiar Find Usages style.
Find dependent code -- an advanced version of former Find Module Usages command, which is capable of searching code depending on specific project throughout the solution. If you need to find how particular assembly reference is used (or not used), invoke it on reference in Solution Explorer.
Filter found usages of attributes -- attributes has two distinct categories of places where they are used. One is where they are applied to an entity and the other is where they are analysed via GetCustomAttributes() methods. If you work with attributes a lot, you will find new filter in Find Usages saving you a lot of browsing time.
Highlight usages of expression -- select expression and see where the same expression is used in a method or in a file.
Improved Type Hiearchy -- member preview pane for selected type and two new view modes for deep hierarchies. One mode shows instantiatable types of the hierarchy as roots and their bases as subnodes. The other shows leaf interfaces - those that have only classes as derived types.
Moving things around -- no need to copy/paste code in order to move statement few lines below, move out of "if" statement or push into "for" loop. Much like manual member reordering, which of course still works. Can reorder enum members, though it is not always safe - know what you are doing. Reorders parameters though not changing call sites - thus not a refactoring. Works in XML to reorder nodes too.
Generating equality -- when generating Equals & GetHashCode, you can now optionally generate equality and inequality operators, implement strongly typed IEquatable
Improved Stack Trace Explorer -- now highlights types, methods and source code paths, deals better with broken stacktraces, works for localized stacktraces. Also doesn't show "paste" dialog - less one key to hit.
Generate from Solution Explorer -- hit Alt-Ins while you are on the folder, file or project in solution explorer and bring instant New File From Template menu. Combine with new Locate in Solution Explorer action to find your currently open file in Solution.
Unit Test Explorer -- browse all unit tests in solution, form arbitrary set of tests, multiple sessions with different sets (with simultaneous run!), better output presentation, and the foundation for more features in future versions.
To-do Explorer -- keeps an up-to-date list of comments matching specified patterns for the whole solution, like "TODO:", "BUG:" , "To John:", "Don't forget to remove it before release!" and so on. Processes comments in C#, VB.NET, XML, XAML and ASP.NET pages (both HTML and code).
XML support -- enables almost all editor enhancement in XML files, like expand/shrink selection, highlight and navigate to matching tag, move tags, split and join, replace tags and attributes. Provides type completion and can automatically insert assembly qualification to avoid annoying typing in files like app.config.
Custom string.Format methods -- tell ReSharper about your own format-like methods and get full featured analysis, context actions and quick fixes for them.
New code inspections -- more checks for redundancy, useful suggestions and warnings. Supports #pragma directives and project settings to suppress warnings.
New quick fixes and context actions -- less manual typing, more focus on your primary task. New quick fixes provide alternative ways to fix errors, remove redundancies and deal with type parameters and constaints. New context actions give you more power for ad-hoc code transformations.
So, these are highlights. Complete list will be available short after ReSharper 3.0 is released - either on official site or here, in my blog. There are many subtle changes and nice little additions that make up the product. I don't know some of them myself! But I strongly feel that ReSharper 3.0 is another step up to the ideal development environment.
Develop with pleasure!
ReSharper 3.0 Release Candidate 2
I'd like to give our big THANKS to those brave people who tried out Beta, Beta2 or Release Candidate, provided invaluable feedback and revealed blocking problems in the upcoming ReSharper 3.0. We really appreciate your effort and doing our best to fix bugs and problems breaking your productivity and flow.
We have a new RC2 build published for you. I ask you to download and try the build.
We have a new RC2 build published for you. I ask you to download and try the build.
17 June 2007
ReSharper 3.0 Release Candidate
We are getting really close to ReSharper 3.0 release so we have a Release Candidate build published for you. It has LOTS of improvements over Beta2 particularly in language-specific editions. I recommend everyone to download the build. This might well be your last chance before relase to make sure it works perfectly for you.
Consequently, I will have more time for blogging next week, so if you have some particular topic in mind you would like me to write about -- drop me a comment.
Consequently, I will have more time for blogging next week, so if you have some particular topic in mind you would like me to write about -- drop me a comment.
16 June 2007
ReSharper 3.0 - Coming Soon
It's been quite a while since I wrote about ReSharper features, but there was a reason -- we are building final bits of ReSharper 3.0. We passed not-so-good Beta milestone, a much better Beta2 update and currently working on last changes for Release Candidate. If you didn't yet try ReSharper 3.0 pre-release builds -- download almost-release-quality Nightly Builds now and tell us what do you think!
Note: ReSharper 3.0 Visual Basic .NET edition has known problems with ASP.NET.
Note: ReSharper 3.0 Visual Basic .NET edition has known problems with ASP.NET.
11 December 2006
ReSharper 2.5 Released
We are proud to announce ReSharper 2.5 release! You can read about what's new in this version in my recent post Near Future, and on official New Features page.
Current users of ReSharper 2.0 can use new version for free - just download and install it. If you didn't yet try ReSharper - you owe yourself to download a 30-day evaluation of ReSharper, obtain a free evaluation license and increase you productivity with C# and VB.NET projects.
Develop with pleasure!
Current users of ReSharper 2.0 can use new version for free - just download and install it. If you didn't yet try ReSharper - you owe yourself to download a 30-day evaluation of ReSharper, obtain a free evaluation license and increase you productivity with C# and VB.NET projects.
Develop with pleasure!
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