Review of JustCode 1.1

Roy Osherove reviewed JustCode 1.0 about half an year ago. I think most of the pros and cons of JustCode described in Roy's review are still valid for the 1.1 release. I have a few comments to add, but have in mind that 30 minutes of working with the product are definitely not enough to give it a fair evaluation. And my point of view is that of a ReSharper addict, who wants to keep all of the goodies of the JetBrains' product and eager to have more.

My overall opinion is that JustCode is good product, but in many ways it can't compete with ReSharper.

• One of the good things about it is that it seamlessly integrates in VS.NET 2003 (so seamlessly that it is not in the Add-Ins list, so you have to go to the general Options dialog to turn it off/on and tweak its options).
• First thing I noticed after starting it is that its memory demands are close to those of ReSharper, sigh... It showed a lot of errors in the solution after parsing it, but most of them were definitely not real errors. Those fake errors included some HTML ones, some concerning types defined in referenced assemblies, etc. Hopefully one can ignore all the errors that he decides, so they don't show up in the IDE.
• The refactoring support is good enough. It covers the most common scenarios and I liked the dialogless approach. I can't say that it is very reliable though. I tried a rename on a Web control and it worked the second time (the first it asked about opening files that will be edited, but did not applied the refactoring only to the codebehind class).
• The navigation functions are pretty good, especially "go to symbol by name" might be very useful, though the UI is not very slick.
• The code templates were not very impressive, but there are some useful ones.
• I liked the feature "learn code style from file", though the C# code styles options are more limited than ReSharper's ones. But the valuable thing about code style is that it is not only about C#, but also VB.NET, HTML, ASP, Javascript and automatic formatting of the code can be applied

JustCode gives VS.NET a nice boost, and if you are not ReSharper junkie, you might enjoy it quite a lot. Unfortunately, using them side-by-side is really not a viable option... so ReSharper wins (again).