Refactoring Tools

Saturday, January 26, 2008 3:25:16 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

If you're looking for an inexpensive Visual Studio 2008 refactoring add-in that performs many essential refactorings at a price point significantly lower than ReSharper, MojabSoftware's new Smarties 2008 (goofy name, notwithstanding) may be your ticket to getting the job done. After reviewing the list of core features, I have to say that I'm impressed by the breadth of both refactorings and timesavers packed into the $46US package.

Their website has this to say about Smarties 2008:

Smarties 2008 is designed for professional developers who don’t need the refactor commands that are used just to change the badly written codes by someone else but instead they want something more powerful and at same time affordable to get their jobs done easier.

Their business model is a simple application of the Pareto Principle (80-20 rule).  It's probably worth a closer look if you're on the fence and for the price probably a no-brainer if you don't need all the extra shiny stuff from ReSharper.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:07:35 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Hi Bill,

As I just finished another very long working day on Smarties 2008, 15:30 hours to be precise with 30mins break, I logged on to the internet and I came across your blog. It made my day somehow even with the goofy comment about the goofy name of Smarties 2008 :-) I couldn’t come up with a better name at the time as I was being so busy developing something “smart” that is really practical for developers. I accept your point anyway :-)

I’m going to share some news with you that I haven’t even published them on Smarties2008’s site yet.

MojabSoftware now offers two licensing model at unbeatable prices;

Single License Developer: It costs $50USD but you can install on two machines for single concurrent use, this is very unique offering for similar tool from any vendor. I’m sure most developers like me have a desktop pc as well as a laptop for on the road. Considering the second installation the price of single license has been reduced by nearly 50% now.

Corporate Licence: It allows you to install Smarties 2008 up to 20 machines for $300USD only.

I made a promise to make Smarties 2008 as affordable as possible and I just did that.

For the next release which is ready now I have added three tools that any developers would find them very handy too. These are;

1. Hex Tool (with seven conversion methods)
2. Encryption Key Tool (almost anything you need)
3. String Converting Tool (something I knew you would want after seeing the other two tools).

I think more or less the names are self explanatory but the relevant pages on site will be updated with more details. All these new tools came in my rescue right away while I’ve been developing the Client Area of the site.

I can say this with confidence that customers have nothing to lose by investing into Smarties 2008.
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