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Interview with Resharper 5.0 Lead Developer

Written by Ashley

For those C# developers who have been living under a rock for the last few years, Resharper is a plug-in for Visual Studio, allowing on-the-fly compilation reporting, static code analysis, refactoring tools, a cool unit test runner and easy code navigation. With the advent of Resharper 5.0 I had a unique opportunity to meet the lead developer responsible for Resharper, and ask a few questions about the new version.

So whats new with this version?

Procedural code to LINQ factorisations

Looks like the Resharper guys have been hard at work conjuring up some new refactorings for Resharper 5, and they have developed some impressive new factorisations to turn procedural code into LINQ expressions. After a brief demonstration it was easy to see that they had put alot of time, thought and effort into these refactorings and the results are pretty good. Developers will have the ability to turn procedural code for querying in-memory collections, XML or Databases into a LINQ expression with one click. In the demonstration i saw...

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