Three months ago Scott Bellware released a couple of NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 (TM). Since then I used them heavily and they saved me quite some time.

As I mentioned in my previous post I'm a ReSharper user now. So it didn't take long until I decided to port Scott's Code Snippets to ReSharper Live Templates.

With Scott's kind permission I will provide the templates here. Download the template file and install it using ReSharper's options dialog. Go to the Templates page and import the file using the "Import Templates from File" button.



For the complete list of shortcuts you should visit Scott's blog post. I couldn't have listed the snippets better than he did. So just check out this post.

NUnit-Templates.xml (8.26 kb)

Today JetBrains released version 2.0 of its popular Visual Studio (TM) add-in ReSharper.

"ReSharper is undoubtedly the most intelligent add-in to Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005. It comes equipped with a rich set of features that greatly increase the productivity of C# and ASP.NET developers. With ReSharper, one gets intelligent coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, as well as unmatched support for code refactoring, unit testing, and a whole lot more. All ReSharper advanced features are available right from Visual Studio."

Key Features

• Error Highlighting and Quick-Fixes
• Advanced Coding Assistance
• Numerous Refactorings
• Navigation and Search
• Unit Testing
• ASP.NET Editing
• NAnt and MSBuild Scripts Editing
• and many more...
  

I use ReSharper since a couple of weeks now. And I'm really impressed. If you think the built-in VS-refactoring capabilities are cool and great, you haven't seen ReSharper yet. Compared with the ReSharper features, the VS refactorings are just a bunch of ridiculous toys.

You can get ReSharper for $199 which is a steal if you consider the productivity you gain.

James Newkirk verkündete heute den Launch einer neuen Project-Community-Website: http://www.codeplex.com.
CodePlex ist eine Umbegebung für Open und Shared Source Projekte, vergleichbar mit SourceForge und GotDotNet. Die Website befindet sich momentan im Beta-Status und hosted 12 Projekte. Darunter unter anderem diese:

• “Atlas” Control Toolkit
• NUnitLite
• IronPython

Ich bin mal gespannt, wie sich das Projekt entwickelt. Eine Alternative zu GotDotNet jedenfalls würde ich jederzeit begrüßen...

Martin Fowler hat seinen Artikel "Continuous Integration" überarbeitet. Das ist sehr empfehlenswertes Lesematerial. Besonders für Entwickler, die noch nichts mit Continuous Integration zu tun hatten.

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.

Kaum poste ich über eine neue Schriftart, die ich neuerdings verwende, veröffentlicht Microsoft das Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005. (via Alexander)

Dieser Font gefällt mir sogar noch einen Tick besser.

 

Seit ein paar Tagen verwende ich nun eine neue Schriftart. Sie lautet Bitstream Vera. Gerade im Visual Studio ist der Font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono sehr zu empfehlen. Er ist sehr leicht zu lesen und man ermüdet auch bei längerem Arbeiten nicht. Trotzdem ist er ziemlich platzsparend.

Wichtig jedoch ist die Verwendung des ClearType Tuners! Der sollte unbedingt installiert und aktiviert werden.