public virtual MemoryStream

This was posted on the intellij.net forums today:

EAP of VS.NET plugin is planned for February 10.

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Valentin Kipiatkov
Chief Scientist, Vice President of Product Development
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

I hate to hype this up too much as the first early access release is bound to have its share of bugs, but I am really looking forward to this plugin. For all you .NET'ies that have never experienced the joy of IntelliJ and for all you PDC'ers that have been impressed by Whidbey's templates and refactoring support: you've got to check this out.

I really like the way IntelliJ is running their Early Access Programs. It's open for anyone and you get free downloads and license keys during the beta program. Ideally, you will provide them with bug-reports and feature-requests in return but you're under no obligation to do so. The only "downside" is that as these EAPs go on, you tend to get more and more hooked on the feature set, up to where you won't want to do without it anymore when they go live. At that point, it won't be free anymore of course. I don't think they have set a price yet but judging by IDEA, I would expect it to be very reasonable and most definitely worth it.

UPDATE: Valentin posted another entry in that thread:

It's a plugin that adds part of IDEA functionality to VS.NET and work with C# language. Later we'll make a standalone IDE with much richer functionality.

Watch out, Microsoft!

UPDATE2: In true Microsoft style, they did not live up to their self-imposed deadline, but the initial beta of idea#.net resharper has just been released. Get it at http://www.jetbrains.net/resharper (thx Jason).