At http://tv.jetbrains.net/vid... there is an excellent video on a selection of the new items in ReSharper 7.As I have said before, if you develop in C# or VB.NET, you should use ReSharper. Now it has been extended to allow unit testing of JavaScript. The above video mentions a possible extension to ReSharper for F#.There are more videos on ReSharper at http://tv.jetbrains.net/cha... ......
Stylecop 4.7.36.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... is an update to coincide with the latest ReSharper. The full fix list is:4.7.36.0 (508dbac00ffc)=============... for 7344. Don't throw 1126 inside default expressions.Fix for 7371. Compare Namespace parts using the CurrentCulture and not InvariantCulture.Fix for 7386. Don't throw casing violations for filed names in languages that do not support case (like Chinese). Added new tests.fix for 7380. ......
Jet Brains have issued ReSharper 7.0.1. This fixes a number of issues with version 7.
Get the update details at:
http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2012/08/resharper-701-bugfix-update-available/If you program in VB.NET or C#, then try out ReSharper - it is an excellent tool!
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The next release release of Sandcastle (due by October 3rd according to Eric Woodruff at http://sandcastlestyles.cod... will include a fix to allow BusinessObjects.Licensing.K... to be ignored. Eric wrote:"I've added support for an ignoreIfUnresolved element within the MRefBuilder resolver configuration element. You can specify any number of assemblyIdentity elements within it with a name attribute identifying the assembly name to ignore if not resolved. I've included ......
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There is now a suggested fix to the problem of "Unresolved assembly reference: BusinessObjects.Licensing.K... when building help files using Sandcastle on a solution that includes crystal reports.Please see the discussion at http://sandcastlestyles.cod... understand from Eric Woodruff that he has a permanent fix for this issue which will work "out of the box" with the next release ......
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Just received news via Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/visualstudio about the virtual event to launch Visual Studio 2012 on Sept 12th.
There is a free e-book on Visual Studio 2012 that can be downloaded from that page.
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Curiosity the latest Mars explorer landed safely at 06:17 GMT today.
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