Refactoring for VB.NET 2005: Microsoft meets the developer's requests.

When lots of time ago Microsoft was out with the news that the new Visual Basic .NET 2005 will not have Refactoring features, all the VB.NET lovers was terrible hurted. Why this choice? Why VB.NET can't have a good refactoring tool?

Lots of posts against this choice were out, on blogs, on newsgroups and also on the Microsoft's Feedback center (personally, I wrote a lot about this choice that for me was a declassification of VB.NET respect to C#). But today we can see a little light...

Corrado Cavalli on our User Group is saying us that Microsoft (to satisfy all the VB.NET developers that want a good refactoring tool) has done a partnership with DeveloperExpress to release, free of charge, a light version of their Refactor Pro tool only for VB.NET 2005. The download is available from this link.

This is a great news I think... With this choice Microsoft has given a sign to listen the community requests and finally all the VB.NET developers around the world can have a good tool to re-structure their source code and work well.

Thanks Microsoft...

Print | posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:49 AM

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