Two Development Tools for .NET
That You Should Never Miss!
Shenhua GU
Jan 2008
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JetBrains ReSharper
• Current Version 3.1 For VS2005
What is ReSharper?
• A state-of-the-art add-in for VS2005
• Help improve your productivity
Features
• Error highlighting and quick fixes• Code generation• Refactoring• Code formatting• Code templates• Navigation and search• Integrated unit-test runner• And more…
Error Highlighting and Quick Fixes
Code Generation
• Press Alt+Ins in a class
Refactoring
• Move type
• Make method static/non-static
• Pull members up
• Push members down
• And more…
Code Formatting
• ReSharper takes it to a whole new level– Format according to a predefined setting– Optimizing using directives– Remove redundant this directives– Arrange modifier keywords
Code Templates
Navigation and Search
• Type Hierarchy View
Navigation and Search
• File Structure View
Navigation and Search
• Go to Type, Ctrl + T
• Or Ctrl + Click
Navigation and Search
• Find Usages
Integrated Unit-test Runner
Examples
• We’re gonna
– Create a business object
– Navigate around the classes
– Leveraging smart code analysis
Ad
• Jedi Coding
• Build console application in 8 minutes.
Future of ReSharper
• Version 4.0 EAP• Support VS2008
– Automatic properties– Object initializers– Collection initializers– Extension methods– Lambda expressions– LINQ– XAML files– …
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Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector
• Current Version 5.0
What is .NET Reflector
• A class browser for .NET components
• C#, VB.NET and IL decompiler
C# 3.0 Support
• Extension methods• Object initializers• LINQ query expressions• Collection initializers• Lambda expressions
C# 3.0 and 2.0 support
• Enable via View, Options, Optimization: .NET 3.5
• C# 2.0: Anonymous methods and nullable types
Code URL support• Navigate to code://mscorlib/System.Object via IE
• Ctrl+Alt+C to copy the URL for current item
• Add to HTML pages using <a href=“code://…”>
Disassembler• Expand Methods and Expand Types feature
• Context-sensitive documentation view• Click on declaration jumps to item in the browser• Tab to cycle through links, Up/Down to scroll• Context-based automatic variable naming
Analyzer• Add and analyze multiple items (DEL to remove)• “Exposed By” and “Instantiated By” search• “Assigned By” search for fields
Search
• String or Constant search
• Exact matching of multiple words
Assembly Lists
• Default lists for:– .NET Framework 3.5– .NET Framework 3.0– .NET Compact Framework 3.5– .NET Compact Framework 2.0– XNA Framework 1.0– DirectX for Managed Code– Mono
Resource Viewer
• View all kinds of resources: js, html, bmp, png, cur…• Save byte arrays in .resources file to disk
Examples
• Let's get our hands dirty• Mission 1
– What’s the data structure used by SortedList<T>?
• Mission 2– Investigate the life cycle of an ASP.NET
Page
• Mission 3– See the Javascript used by GridView
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