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My trial ran out a few days ago. And I haven't posted about R# for almost a month. I have to a few more things to share, and perhaps I can save everyone some time. The R# team has done quite a few small things to raise the tool a step above my expectations. There are a lot of things that may seem small, but really turn out to be significant improvements to the way I manage my code. Simple things, like, locating new code (via refactoring) with similar declarations (fields with fields, properties with...

I've been using ReSharper now for about one and a half weeks. Now that I am writing some new code, I have more to share. The most helpful and time saving feature that I have encountered so far is code generation. In one case, I had added a couple of new properties to one of my entity objects. In actuality, I add the code in my test first. R# quickly recognized that the property didn't exist and gave me the option to create a field or property. I chose the property option and presto, R# found my class...

I've discovered what was causing problems with TestDriven.Net and it isn't ReSharper. I had recently refactored my test fixtures and now I have a few that make use of generics BaseTest<T>. I had run into a problem with TD.Net before regarding generics and had to rearrange my classes (I had two classes in one file) to get it to work. I don't remember the details and I am still having problems getting it to work now. Regardless, R# is off the hook. And as an added bonus, R# doesn't appear to...

So day two brought more items of interest. Unit Testing still problematic Apparently, ReSharper installs with version 2.2.8 of NUnit. I am using 2.4.8 which includes syntax helpers. A bunch of my tests were failing with multiple TypeLoadExceptions. To resolve the issue, I ran the tests in debug mode and took a look at where the nunit.framework library was being loaded from. I found that it was being loaded from C:\Program Files\JetBrains\ReSharper\v... Once I determined that I was dealing with...

I finally installed ReSharper yesterday to try it out. I've been dragging my heals because I didn't want to have to learn a bunch of new commands and pay for that right (I'm cheap, I know). Here are a few things I noticed immediately. Keep in mind that these are first impressions, and they are sure to change over the next couple of weeks. [Update] I turns out that ReSharper is not the culprit here. See this post for more details. TestDriven.Net broken after ReSharper install. Any time I attempt to...

I ran into the same old "cannot serialize value myType of type myType" issue the other day and knew immediately that I should check that my classes were marked with the [Serializable] attribute. Well, I checked and all of the classes had the attribute as required. So I spent an hour our so searching the web for other reasons why we might get this error. I found nothing. So I pinged a buddy of mine and I walked him through the issue. He said, "It's gotta be one of your classes missing the Serializable...

I've had a few comments to my PageMethods blog from about a month ago. They were all along the lines of "not enough code." I wasn't really intending to provide a detailed account of my experience, but to exclaim how cool PageMethods are (at least for my scenario). Well, I am hoping to put some time aside over the next week or two to write a brief article on the subject. I'll be sure to include all of the code and hope to go through each step of the relatively short process. By the way, if anyone...

[If you are looking for a quick answer, jump here.] Yesterday morning was probably one of my least favorite in recent memory. I arranged to take the day off to go shopping with my wife, but I had to check-in to make sure everything was okay at the office. I checked my email from home and found that there were suddenly two issues reported on my project that was scheduled for an update in production that night. Needless to say I had to address the problems. It turns out that neither were more than...

Recently, I ran into a problem where I needed to cast from an unknown type to a known type. Normally this would be fine as I a generic cast. For example... 1 public static T ValueOf<T>( this OracleCommand command, string parameterName ) 2 { 3 return (T)command.Parameters[param... 4 } The parameter of course returns an object and I wanted to streamline the parameter value lookup process. All was well until I started using ODP.Net (instead of Microsofts OracleClient). With the OracleClient,...

So I was hoping this post would be a glorious review of my first attempt at working with WebParts and Oracle. Alas, the experience has not been so glorious. I am working on a "dashboard" of sorts as a demo for my boss. I spent a few hours on it this afternoon as a spike to see if the approach is feasible. I have to say that I believe it is, but there is one major kink I have to work out. ASP.Net WebParts uses the SqlPersonalizationProvider by default. Unfortunately, we are developing on Oracle. However,...