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ReSharper offers hundreds of quick-fixes and context actions. As you remember, quick-fixes are aimed to resolve a certain problem in your code, whereas context actions allow you to quickly introduce some minor changes. Today we are going to review several quick-fixes and context actions that simp…

The sixth installment of How We Scrum shows you how we execute a sprint. Previously in this series, we published an Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, Our Approach to Estimation, and Our Sprint Planning. Our Scrum Board When the planning session is over, the Scrum Master drags the planne…

This is the fifth episode in our How We Scrum series. This installment is devoted to our sprint planning. If you missed any of the previous posts, check out the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, and Our Approach to Estimation. The Sprint Planning event is an important part of our Scrum …

ReSharper's code generation actions can create a lot of code for us. Why manually write a constructor that initializes type members? Why manually implement interface methods and properties? ReSharper can do those things for us! Some say developers who use tools to generate code are lazy. Personal…

We are starting the new year with a bugfix update for ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3. All in all, it addresses 50+ issues in ReSharper, dotCover, dotTrace and ReSharper C++. ReSharper 2016.3.2 includes minor fixes in code analysis and highlighting, automatic code completion in TypeScript, and generati…

Previous installments in the How We Scrum series include the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, and Our Backlog. The fourth post is devoted to our approach to estimation. Last year, we introduced the #NoEstimates approach to our Scrum process. Instead of using estimations and spent time to calculate …

If you use dotTrace, you probably know it consists of two independent applications for performance analysis: Performance Viewer and Timeline Viewer. One of the greatest features that made Performance Viewer so helpful for quick performance evaluation was Subsystems. In dotTrace 2016.3, Subsystems ha…

Today we'd like to recap the most important changes in navigation and search that were introduced in ReSharper 2016.3. Find Results window is populated asynchronously If your solution is large enough, finding references of heavily used symbols can take time, delaying work with your code. To ad…

Previously we published the Introduction and Our Scrum Roles installments from the How We Scrum series. This post is the third in the series and is devoted to our product backlog. In our case, the product backlog is a set of features that we plan to build for YouTrack. At JetBrains in general…

With C#, we live in a comfortable managed world where everything is controlled by CLR. But sometimes, whether we like it or not, we have to work with 'unmanaged' objects, for example when we want to use some third-party DLL, a COM component, or a resource required for interoperability with the opera…

dotTrace 2016.3 introduces a new Events window which is available in both standalone dotTrace and dotTrace integrated in Visual Studio. To open the window in the standalone Timeline Viewer, use the View | Events menu: In Visual Studio, click Show Events in the Performance Profiler window: …

In the previous post, I outlined the steps we took to implement a Scrum methodology in the  YouTrack team. The first step in our Scrum transformation was to define who would take on each of the core roles. Product Owner In the YouTrack team, the Product Owner is responsible for prioritising i…