Resharper for VB.NET

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Inspired by Jeff Key's "if loving Resharper is wrong I don't wanna be right" soliloquy, I emailed JetBrains to see if they had plans to bring Resharper-- currently a C# only tool-- to VB.NET. This was their response:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/02/resharper-for-vbnet.html
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So are we saying here that (from an IDE standpoint) with Reshaper installed, C# is as easy to code with as vb.net?

It might just get me to code C# more often!

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If you need it that bad, DevExpress is coming out with a new refactor tool, which will support C# AND VB.NET and ultimately any .NET language. Saw Mark Miller from DevExpress present this at a .NET user group presentation; very very cool product.

Also, http://www.xtreme-simplicity.net/ is coming out with support for VB as well.

If you really want to type C# easy now, try the $99 VisualAssist from wholetomato.com. Great product… not affiliated with anyone! It works with VB and C#, not to mention HTML, JScript! I love this thing…

HTH,

Leigh

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Well, no sweat – you can wait until VS .NET 2005 comes out, or you can join our EAP for the ReSharper IDE that will start around the release of VS .NET 2005 … the ReSharper IDE will have all of the same cool features as the VS .NET 2005 ReSharper plugin, plus all of the other cool bangs and whistles that we generally put into our products …

The Plugin for VS .NET 2005 the IDE will have support for:

C# 2.0 (including Generics)
VB.NET

David Stennett
JetBrains, Inc.

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Thanks,
Curtis White
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They are a little late… The “Official Release” of VS 2005 has come and gone. Expected delivery on the VB edition of Resharper? End of year… maybe.

It’s in the comments here:

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2006/06/resharper-20-help-available-online/

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Has anyone noticed:
C# == (VB.NET + syntax);
If anyone checks code samples (with translations from vb to c#), they are almost exactly the same.

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This is great news. Too bad it’s not until the whidbey timeframe, which only leaves us lowly vb.net developers of hopes for Refactor! that I know of in the 2003 IDE, but good news nonetheless. Glad to see 3rd party vendors picking up the refactoring slack, as long as we can get mgmt to see enough value to purchase :slight_smile:
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This is great news. Too bad it’s not until the whidbey timeframe, which only leaves us lowly vb.net developers of hopes for Refactor! that I know of in the 2003 IDE, but good news nonetheless. Glad to see 3rd party vendors picking up the refactoring slack, as long as we can get mgmt to see enough value to purchase :slight_smile: