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18Nov/080

Announcements on Adobe MAX

I just read a tweet from Serge Jespers from Adobe MAX in San Francisco. It said "Flex development in Visual Studio and AMF for .NET". Some time ago I blogged about Silverlight development in Eclipse, and now this very interesting news from Adobe. You can find more information about the plugin for Visual Studio on www.ensemble.com. The product is called Tofino and here is the description:

"Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio is a plugin that enables .NET developers to create Flex front ends for their applications in the same IDE that they normally use. Instead of using a separate text or XML editor and manually invoking the compiler, they can move smoothly between MXML and .NET file types within Visual Studio, and invoke Flex build and run commands from Visual Studio menus."

Other interesting stuff:

Cocomo was announced. It is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (rich Internet applications).
Thermo is now called Flash Catalyst. More info here.

Next month I will be attending Adobe MAX in Milan and hopefully I will get some more information about all these announcements.

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21May/080

ReSharper 4.0 Beta is out!

Finally there is a new ReSharper version available that has support for the latest version of the .NET Framework. The beta has the following new features:

Support for Visual Studio 2008 and C# 3.0, including LINQ, implicitly typed locals and arrays, extension methods, automatic properties, lambda expressions, object & collection initializers, anonymous types, expression trees, and partial methods.
.NET Framework classes annotated with custom attributes to make ReSharper analyze your code even better than before - for instance, to let it know where format strings should be passed or where null values can or can not be assigned.
Code Cleanup - a powerful successor to Reformat Code. By simply running Code Cleanup, you can instantly apply a dozen of actions, including arranging 'this' qualifiers, removing code redundaicies, migrating to auto-properties, optimizing using directives, and many more.
All ReSharper's refactorings now support C# 3.0. New members of the refactoring family are available, including a pack of C# 3.0-specific refactorings.
And more.

You can download the beta here.