From time to time I find myself writing the same code – a task I find boring, tedious and error prone(I’m not talking about code duplication – which should be eliminated as the evil it is) as the lazy developer that I am I prefer to let a tool perform these tasks for me. Today … Continue reading Create live templates using Resharper
In his post Beware of Productivity Tools Mark Seemann explains why he shun from using so called “productivity tools” – tools like Resharper, CodeRush, JustCode or any other tool that is runs on top of Visual Studio in order to enhance development. While I don’t know Mark personally, I’m in the middle of his book … Continue reading Be-aware of productivity tools
As the year draws to its end it’s time to think of the paths we took in the last year… About 4 months ago I wrote a post titled 14 application to install on a new development machine explaining why I installed each an every application on my new and shiny laptop (T510) I got … Continue reading Application to install on a new development machine–revisited
On Monday I attended the 2nd ALT.NET tool night (IL) – and it was a blast! There were 20-30 of us .NET developers who decided to take the time and learn about new tools. AN so I came, I saw, I ate pizza and in between I got to talk with some really talented folk. … Continue reading The 2nd ALT.NET tool night
I’ve just received a new T510 two days ago, and started installing my favorite applications on it immediately. I’ve noticed that there are some applications that I could afford not to install on the new machine while there were others I could not do without.The list below was compiled for the benefit of two parties … Continue reading 14 application to install on a new development machine
I’ve been using R# v5 for a few weeks (ever since the nightly builds were made public) and I’m not going back. There is an exception now and then but it get caught by R# and reported back (if you want it to) without causing any problems with Visual Studio. There are some feature I … Continue reading Five reasons to install Resharper 5 today
It’s that time in the month when I shed a light on cool tools releases that every (.NET) developer should know about. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 The new Visual Studio is one step closer to it’s release. Today MSDN subscribers (yours truly among them) can download the latest release of the upcoming 2010 version … Continue reading Software News – October 2009
Unit testing success is determined by several factors: the project, team commitment and the tools used. Having a unit testing framework is a must, having an easy way to run your tests is just as important. Although every single unit testing framework in the market has way to run tests from a console and a … Continue reading .NET unit testing essentials – Integrated test Runners
I use Resharper daily and it help me to write better code faster. The only downside is that the developer needs to learn many keyboard shortcuts in order to properly use its functionality. While I'm still learning new shortcuts every day I've found that I keep using several shortcuts most of the time.The list below … Continue reading 15 Resharper keyboard shortcuts you need to know
One of the reasons I heard not to use JetBrains ReSharper is its performance overhead. As a developer there is nothing more frustrating then having Visual Studio freeze and chock during coding. JetBrains decided to address this problem and did some work recently released ReSharper 4.5 Beta version. If you never tried ReSharper or tried … Continue reading ReSharper 4.5 Beta
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