ReSharper 2016.3

In this post, we're going to look at how ReSharper 2016.3 can help you unit test your .NET Core applications and libraries. Sadly, before we can look at this, we have to deal with the confusing issue of what versions of .NET Core are supported. TL;DR: ReSharper 2016.3 works with .NET Core proj…

When we released ReSharper 2016.3 (and earlier this week, ReSharper 2017.1 EAP), we introduced initial support for C# 7 and VB.NET 15. For example, ReSharper now understands binary literals and digit separators, as well as local functions with several inspections. We're far from feature complete, bu…

If you are a long-term user of dotTrace Timeline Viewer, you've likely noticed some UI changes in dotTrace 2016.3. What has changed exactly and, more importantly, why were these changes made? Read on to find out. (more…)…

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…

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…

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…

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: …

After we released the initial continuous testing support in dotCover, the most popular response was "Cool, but this could be a lot more useful if highlighting was able to indicate test results." Indeed, before 2016.3, dotCover's highlighting was used only to indicate code coverage: dotCover 2…

ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 introduces a new infrastructure for language injections in string literals, which enables ReSharper to treat particular string literal contents as a piece of code written in one of the supported programming languages: C# or ECMAScript regular expressions language, CSS, HTML…

Looking for a bugfix release? We have one! ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3.1 is now available for download. This update addresses a selection of issues in ReSharper and ReSharper C++. ReSharper 2016.3.1 is mostly about integrating into Visual Studio 2017 RC. We've received a lot of complaints about 201…