ReSharper is a great plugin for Visual Studio! I’ve been using the 4.0 EAPs since they were first released to the public and they have been very stable. But the installer seems to have had a few hickups recently…
The installation starts and everything runs smoothly until devenv.exe is called to update the VS2008 integrations. Shortly after this process starts I am presented with this a dialog box with the message:
The operation could not be completed
Damn!
After a bit of googling I discovered that the error is rooted in UAC. Never mind though, because the solution was very simple…
First I enabled the Administrator account (which is disabled by default on Vista), then logged in as the Administrator and installed ReSharper (build 799).
Voila! No error!
After installing I logged off, logged back in as me, and promptly disabled the Administrator account.
I just read a post by Jean-Paul Boodhoo in which he describes his view of TDD.
From the post:
I feel that test driven development is first and foremost a design activity that is used to flesh out the design of a component by creating a test that first describes the API it is going to expose and how you are going to consume it’s functionality. The test will help shape and mold the System Under Test until you have been able to encapsulate enough functionality to satisfy whatever tasks you happen to be working on.
I think that is a pretty helpful definition. Thanks JP!
