There are a many tools that makes your life as a programmer even better. For the peeps who like nice graphics and colors then DevExpress has their Refactor! Pro and CodeRush Xpress tools. Although they are nice they don’t fit in my programming style. This tools make justice for their names, Refactor! – do it now! and CodeRush. I don’t like to code in a rush. I like to put some thought to it and take the time it takes to think about the problem domain, do some coding, refactor it, tweak it and then code some more.
The tool that really got my attention is JetBrains Resharper. This tool has been around since the early days of .NET. A feature that Rehsarper has that I haven’t been able to find in other refactoring tools like Refactor! is the implementation of the testing concepts. The guys at JetBrains have done a nice work in incorporating their own test runner into the Visual Studio IDE.
One of the things that I personally like is the possibility to extend R#. The team at Gallio have done an excellent job in integrating their testing platform with rehsarper. It enables you to run any XUnit framework from the same platform. Just check this out from the Gallio homepage
“At present Gallio can run tests from MbUnit versions 2 and 3, MSTest,NBehave, NUnit, xUnit.Net, and csUnit. Gallio provides tool support and integration with CCNet, MSBuild, NAnt, NCover, Pex, Powershell, Resharper,TestDriven.Net, TypeMock, and Visual Studio Team System.”
Well enough of the flattering, the reason of this post was that I found out that David Ridgway has some means to provide you with an extended trial period of Resharper and also giving you a nice 10% off discount. So if you are a testing developer and like Resharper, go to David’s blog and be happy.
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Monday, February 23, 2009 6:53 PM
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