I have been offline for what seems to be ages and I just noticed that in the meanwhile Jetbrains released the beta of ReSharper 5. There are tons of cool new features but take a look for yourself here. They also created a ReSharper 5.0 vs. ReSharper 4.5 comparison matrix.

A feature that I have been asking for so long is maybe going to make it finally to ReSharper 5.0. I am talking about the possibility to search for types, members, … using middle-matching. So when you search for Factory, it would find CustomerFactory, InvoiceFactory, … .

You can cast your vote here.

Ilya Ryzhenkov, the .NET Tools Product Manager, blogged about what we can expect from the future version of R#. The team is going to spent 4 months on improving the overall performance of ReSharper and to optimize the memory footprint. Beside that they are planning to add again a bunch of new refactorings and other features ...

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Great news from the ReSharper front. Ilya and his team have released version 4.0 of this magnificent productivity tool. Download the trial here. I am glad to see that they have also updated the default keymap which you can find here.

Ilya Ryzhenkov, the .NET Tools Product Manager at JetBrains, blogged about one of the new features in ReSharper 4 namely the possibility to highlight mutable variables. With this feature you can have local variables highlighted whose value changes after the variable is being used.

In this next code excerpt you will see that the variable userName changes after being used and therefore it is highlighted:

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The guys from ReSharper created a ReSharper 3.1 vs Plain Visual Studio 2008 comparison matrix. Check it out here.

The long awaited Early Access Program (EAP) for version 4.0 of ReSharper, that provides support for C# 3.0 will start today. The nightly builds are said to be unstable but if you like living on the edge and are a ReSharper addict like me than you should bookmark this page:

http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds.

Jura Gorohovsky posted on the JetBrains blog that the Early Access Program (EAP) for ReSharper 4.0 will start this month. It is an exciting release I have been waiting for because it offers support for the new language features of C# 3.0.

ReSharper 4.0 - General Preview

JetBrains released today v3.1 of ReSharper and closed the EAP program until January when the Early Access Program for ReSharper v4 will be opened. This version will be an exciting release as it is expected that it will provide support for the C# 3.0 language syntax. This does not mean that you can't use ReSharper 3.1 in Visual Studio 2008 because you can it just does not support C# 3.0.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/index.html

JetBrains has released version 3 of ReSharper. Among the list of new features there is support for XAML. You can read all about it here.