Recent publications

A while since I posted about articles I wrote. If you know German, this might be interesting for you 🙂

Just a short translation of the topics:

• Deklarativ bauen: About building .NET applications declaratively with Apache NPanday + Maven.
• Vom Patch zum Committer: About enabling a good workflow for submitting patches to SVN-based OS projects using GIT, github and GIT-SVN.
• Quellen anzapfen: Introduction to GIT and GIT-SVN
• Aschenputtel ausstaffieren: About creating high-quality console applications.
• Neuigkeiten zum Resharper 5: A “news” article on the history of refactoring tool support and JetBrains newest (at that time) ReSharper version.

 

July 2011

Deklarativ bauen, Maven und NPanday, dotnetpro 07/2011, Seite 30

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February 2011

Vom Patch zum Committer, Open-Source Workflow mit Git + SVN, dotnetpro 02/2011, Seite 106

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January 2011

Quellen anzapfen, Einführung zu Open Source, git und git-svn, dotnetpro 01/2011, Seite 84

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November 2010

Aschenputtel ausstaffieren, Konsolenprogramme, Clean Code, dotnetpro 11/2010, Seite 56

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September 2010

Die Schlange im Tigerkäfig, Ko- und Kontravarianz in C#, dotnetpro 09/2010, Seite 68

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April 2010

Neuigkeiten zum ReSharper 5, dotnetMagazin + dotnet.de

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My .NET Development Must-have Tool List

While installing my new development VM running Windows 7 Beta on my MacBook Pro via VM Ware Fusion, I just wrote a list of the tools I installed.

For daily use

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Developer
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 + VS 2008 SP1
• JetBrains ReSharper, ~ $150, Productivity Plugin + UnitTest-Runner with tons of features.
  Coming from IDEA or Eclipse, and just missing everything in VS?
  I woultn’t start writing one line of Code without it! 🙂
   
  No, JetBrains does not pay me! I bought the product regularly 🙂
• TortoiseSVN, free, best SVN Client
• VisualSVN, $49, Tortoise SVN Integration for Visual Studio
• WinMerge, free, Windows Diff Viewer and Merge Tool, SVN Support
• StyleCop, free, Code Style Checker
• StyleCop for ReSharper, free, Visual Studio Integration for StyleCop with R# Code Cleanup and Quickfixes

Profiling

• JetBrains dotTrace, ~ $500, Great Performance and Memory Profiler
• nCover, from ~ $300, Code Coverage Tool for Test and Live Coverage
• NDepend, ~ $400, Static Code Analysis for Quality
• TD.Net, Free Personal Edition, Test-Runner with NCover support

For more tools have a look at Scott Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Visual Studio + R# – Color Extension Methods differently with ReSharper

When I read code, I find it really useful to see whether a method is real, or just an extension.

To do so, enable Color identifiers in ReSharper > Options > Code Inspection > Settings. Be aware, that this sets the ReSharper default colors in the first place.

Then define ReSharper Extension Method Identifier in Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors to your favorite color. I like to have them in Purple.

Have fun!

ReSharper Code Documentation Completion

I would like R# to detect references to members, classes, parameters, generic parameters in the code documentation and either offer completion or quickfixes just to generate the necessary markup.

Just by typing "The parameter bar of type IBar..... " inside a code documentation tag R# could quickly fix it to be "The parameter <paramref name="bar"/> of type <see ref="IBar"/>...."

I would then use much more references in the documentation.

/// <summary>
/// The parameter <paramref name="bar"/> of 
/// type <see ref="IBar"/> ....
/// </summary>
void Foo(IBar bar);....

 

You like it? Vote for the feature request in JetBrains Jira!

• RSRP-58899 – Completion and Suggestion for symbols/types/parameters in code documentation