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  • The funny thing is the first company to add refactoring support for VB will probably be Microsoft. And even though we are screaming at them that they are "dumbing it down", it will probably still be better than all these C# only tools.



    And since I have to switch back and forth between the two languages (VB and C#), then I am not going to use a refactoring tool that only works for one, and ideally would have the same naming conventions, which MS won't have.

  • I don't know the exact timeline for VB.NET support in Resharper (I'll have to check with the developers of Resharper), but I can tell you for sure that the architecture of Resharper does allow support for multiple languages, and it will eventually support VB.NET and other .NET languages.

  • Hi Roy, you say "the first company that adds refactoring support to VB.Net will make lots of money". I'm not sure about that myself. Where I am, (South Africa) most of the VB .NET devs I know are former VB6 programmers. I can say with confidence that the type of refactoring you're talking about is mostly alien to them. They are just now getting to grips with Object Oriented Programming and almost to a man they don't see the point. I can't say I blame them coz they always seemed to get the job done pretty damned well and on time with VB6. Trust me, as a software tester at one point, it was bloody frustrating trying to break their code :-) The systems that were built when I was junior at my first company are still standing to this day and running pretty smoothly I hear. So refactoring?? OOP?? Blaaah! :-D

  • Why use VB.NET anyway? Not trying to be a smart ass but it seems that most people are going the C# route. Isn't VB.NET just a stop gap that MS put in place to pacify VB6 developers.

  • Just recieved an email about one today (supports both VB and VC# but not unfortunately C++) www.devexpress.com/coderush not sure how it compares yet but there is an evaluation.

  • Roy:



    I totally agree with you that the 3rd party tools like refactoring tools for VB.NET is disappointing.



    I do agree with Senkwe when he says that it probably won't matter to a whole bunch of people who don't have a strong O-O background.



    Anyways, I'm keeping my fingers crossed - who will be first for VB.NET - Xtreme Simplicity, JetBrains, or someone else?



    Hopefully the tool will also work with VB.NET code contained in ASP.NET scriptlets!!! (unfortunately we have a lot of code that was done that way)



    Take care,

    Dominique

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