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On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints, one of the problems I encountered was trying to come up with a generic, reusable way of working with T4 Templates (T4 is the used by Blueprints for all code generation as T4  is now integrated into Visual Studio 2008) to generate the code fragments. I created ...

[Start update 26.02.2009] I've pushed up another release (0.0.14301.000) that contains fixes for all RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) reported bugs: Fixes:Fixed: reported RC bugsFixed: add customer repro around inserting documentation (SA1503) Fixed: adding option for 1500. Fixing bracket on same line issue for split line object initializersFixed: ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. We're almost at the finish line - we’ve added 19 new fixes (both Quick-Fixes and Code Clean Up Modules in addition to the 92 already implemented) and fixed a whole slew of reported issues. Please try this version of the plug-in and tell us about any issues you find, or any new features you ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  In my previous post about StyleCop for ReSharper I said that I'd be posting updates about the tool to my personal blog rather than my EMC Consulting blog, but unfortunately there was a hardware failure on the server that hosts my personal blog and I've not had a chance to get things ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  A huge amount of work has been done over the last month since the previous release. We've added a new Quick Fix and Code Clean-Up Module frameworks which have helped us develop over 42 new fixes in addition to the 21 Quick Fixes we produced in the previous release. We've also given ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved   The JetBrains team have been working hard at getting functionality and bug fixes into version 4.0 of ReSharper.  I'm very excited to see that it's finally reached RTM status and now fully supports Visual Studio 2008 and all the C# 3.0 goodness!  Go get it ...

EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved   Some metrics that we captured on my project: (I think the numbers speak for themselves) Operation     VS 2005     VS 2008           % Improvement Start the ...