JetBrains has released a detailed list of new features found in the next release.The release is planned for the autumn (about the same time as the release of Visual Studio 2005). But what really got me going was that they’re offering free upgrades from ReSharper 1.x to new baby, ReSharper 2.0

General

• Support of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2003
• Support of C# 2.0 (under Visual Studio 2005 only)
• Support of VB.NET (refactorings, usage search, navigation, code formatter)
• Support of ASP.NET (almost all features implemented for C# and VB.NET for code inside ASP pages)
• Cross-language refactoring
• Open API (plug-ins support)
• No modal progress on startup (loading in background)
• Install shortcuts in localized versions of VS
• New preprocessor directives handling (no errors caused by use of preprocessor directives anymore!)

Refactoring

• Reworked UI with preview of changes, problems resolving etc
• Pull Up Member refactoring
• Push Down Member refactoring
• Make Method Static refactoring
• Make Method Non-Static refactoring
• Safe Delete refactoring
• Inline Method refactoring
• Use Base Type where Possible refactoring
• Move Static Members refactoring
• Move Inner Type to Outer Scope refactoring
• Replace Constructor with Factory Method refactoring
• Rename/move: process string literals and comments
• Move type: support for multiple types
• Change Signature: support for IntelliSense and highlighting inside table fields

On-the-fly Code Highlighting

• Highlighting of all syntax errors
• Highlighting of redundant down-casts (now only redundant up-casts are detected)
• Warn about potentially unhandled exceptions (using doc-comments)
• Optionally check for naming conventions violations
• Highlighting of invalid format strings
• Lot of new quickfixes

Live Templates

• Support for templates sharing, import/export, etc
• "Create file from Live Template" feature
• "Create template from selection" feature

Code Formatter

• Line wrapping
• Code style settings: support for sharing, import/export and multiple schemes)

Other

• Support of unit tests (running/debugging unit tests, navigation from exception stacktraces and more)
• "Go to Symbol" feature (the same as Ctrl+N and Ctrl+Shift+N but navigates to all types and members)
• Auto-popup code completion on typing (as in VS2005)
• Code completion for preprocessor directives
• Code completion in namespace declarations
• Generate Equals() & HashCode()
• Implement Members: optionally generate fields for implemented properties
• Make stubs that are generated for method bodies customizable
• Action to implement given abstract member in one of implementors
• Type Hierarchy
• File structure view with regions, drag&drop etc
• "Complete Statement" feature

The DesignMode property for a UserControl object will show that it is in DesignMode only if the immediate parent is viewed in the IDE; if it is a grand child of the object that is being viewed in the IDE, then the DesignMode property will not be true.

The workaround:

///

/// Indicates if the current view is being utilized in the VS.NET IDE or not.

///

public new bool DesignMode

{

   get

      {

         return (System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName == "devenv");

      }

}

[ Via Mark Jordan's blog ]

A few articles on n-teir architecture in .Net

Part 1:What is N-Tier Architecture?
Part 2:How to implement the Business Layer
Part 3:How to implement the Data Layer

LLBLGen::About n-tier development
N-Tier Applications and .NET

Part 1:Architecture prototype revised and tested - level 400
Part 2:Architecture prototype revised and tested - level 400

Jason Row post some useful links and information regarding creating Visual Studio.NET Add-ins.

edtFTPnet is the first choice of .NET developers worldwide for
incorporating FTP functionality into their applications.

• Widely used throughout the world in many projects.
• Full source code is provided.
• Passive and active modes are supported (PASV and PORT).
• Resuming of interrupted binary transfers supported.
• Events for monitoring progress of data transfers.
• Under the LGPL, so it can be embedded in commercial applications.
• Mature and stable codebase.
• Simple but extensive API analogous to a command line FTP program.