If JetBrains is a sports team, I’d be a fan of it, just like I am a fan of Houston Rockets. JetBrains has so many good products, Resharper, dotMemory, dotCover, and dotTrace. Don’t forget TeamCity, it is really an awesome build tool.
I agreed to a saying at Houston TechFest 2016, from a great speaker Curtis Schlak, that Visual Studio and Resharper make the developer’s mind dull because the tools like Resharper do a lot and developers start to lose the skills to do it manually. Sadly that’s the side effect for using Resharper. Just like I won't be able to remember my best friend's phone number any more after my iPhone can remember the numbers for me. I guess there are always pros and cons. I think I need to be aware of the side effects to use Reshaper. But I don’t think I’ll let Resharper go out of my developer’s life.
Way to go JetBrains Resharper. Here are the good stuff in 2017.1.
- C# 7 support with new inspections and quick-fixes
- Support for the Lightweight solution load mod
- .NET Core unit testing support in Visual Studio 2017
- Many code formatting improvements including support for EditorConfig
- Filtering options in Find Results , Go to Everything , and Go to Text
- Full support for TypeScript 2.1 and initial support for TypeScript 2.2
- Initial support for Angular 2
