PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --     JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing 
applications, today announced the release of ReSharper version 4.0, the 
company's award-winning productivity add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. 
This release is spearheaded by across-the-board support for C# 3.0 language, 
including LINQ, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 in general. In addition, 
the upgraded add-in features multiple new usability and productivity-boosting 
tools, such as standard class library annotations, solution-wide analysis 
(for C#), versatile code cleanup, new automated refactorings, new and 
improved code-editing capabilities, and more.

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"In this release, we have adopted the latest C# specifications to provide
the most up-to-date support for .NET developers," said Valentin Kipiatkov,
JetBrains CTO. "We not only put great effort into supporting all of the
features of C# 3.0, but, in keeping with our tradition, added a number of
intelligent tools to make those language features much easier to work with."

Significant improvements and new features in ReSharper 4.0 include:

    - Comprehensive support for C# 3.0 - ReSharper not only analyzes new
      language constructs, but displays suggestions to help migrate to C# 
      3.0, as well as new warnings to comply with best programming 
      practices. It implements C#3.0-ready refactorings and completes your 
      code with extension methods, lambda expressions, and other new language 
      constructs where appropriate.

    - Annotations for .NET Framework Class Library - Annotations come with a
      special set of custom attributes that greatly enhance the quality of
      ReSharper's code analysis, such as the location of possible 
      NullReferenceEx. Even more rewarding is that the set of attributes is 
      available for all users to annotate their own code.

    - Solution-Wide Analysis - ReSharper looks for erroneous C# code in your
      whole solution on the fly, that is, without compiling it first. It can
      discover errors which cannot be detected by analyzing a single file.

    - Code Cleanup - A flexible code compliance and formatting tool that
      brings together a dozen of ReSharper features. In addition to 
      fine-tuning formatting style, you can opt to remove code redundancies, 
      migrate to anonymous types and auto-properties, make fields read-only 
      if possible, optimize using directives, and revamp your C# code with 
      many more settings. Code Cleanup works in batch mode, so that you can 
      instantly clean the whole project or even solution with a single 
      shortcut.

    - New refactorings - New members of the refactoring family are available,
      including Inline Method and a pack of C# 3.0-specific refactorings. 
      For VB.NET, all refactorings that were previously limited to C# 2.0 
      are now available for Visual Basic 8.

    - Productivity features and performance enhancements:

    - Complete Statement - Inserts the necessary syntax elements (braces,
      semicolons etc.) and gets you in position to start the next statement, 
      saving on excessive juggling with the caret.

    - CamelHumps in Code Completion - Lets you complete any symbol by
      entering only its uppercase characters.

    - Live Templates Editor & Manager - Improved user interface for viewing
      and managing code templates.

    - Recent Edits - A drop-down list that shows the files and symbols that
      you recently modified.

    - ASP.NET Speedup - Significantly accelerated analysis of ASP.NET pages.



As before, ReSharper continues to target a variety of user groups. In
addition to the full-featured ReSharper 4.0, we are offering two specialized
editions: C# and VB.NET. These language-focused editions exclude a part of
the functionality to provide significant savings to end users. To eliminate
any confusion, there's now a single download package for all editions.

Complete product information about JetBrains ReSharper is available at
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper?rs40pr.

ReSharper 4.0 is available for a 30-day free trial download at
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/?rs40pr. No evaluation licenses
are required.

New customers can purchase ReSharper 4.0 online at
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy/?rs40pr.

ReSharper 4.0 is available under commercial and personal licensing. Those
who purchased version 3.0 or 3.1 under a special offer are eligible to
upgrade for free. 30-day full-featured evaluation is available for anyone who
would like to give ReSharper a try.

About JetBrains

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing
in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company
is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java integrated development
environment, IntelliJ IDEA (see details on the Web at
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/?rs40pr), ReSharper for .NET developers (see
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/?rs40pr), dotTrace profiler for .NET
applications (see http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/?rs40pr), and TeamCity, a
cross-platform team productivity environment (see
http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/?rs40pr).

JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its
R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts. For
more information, see http://www.jetbrains.com?rs40pr.

Note to Editors: JetBrains, IntelliJ, IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, dotTrace,
and TeamCity are trademarks or registered trademarks of JetBrains s.r.o. All
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