.NET Demon from RedGate: continuous compilation
The guys at RedGate have just released a Beta of a new tool, an extension for Visual Studio called .NET Demon.
Firstly, for everyone: it continuously compiles your code, so that you don’t get the delay when you hit F5. Also, by monitoring the public interfaces of the project your working on, it can make an intelligent decision on whether to re-compile any dependant projects or not.
If you use unit tests, it gets better: tests are run continuously as you develop, so you get instant feedback. In addition, the results of the test results (and coverage) are shown inline.
Because it’s in Beta, you can evaluate this tool, now. For free! Download it from the Visual Studio Gallery, or from RedGate. The final will be paid-for, but this evaluation lets you see whether it’ll make a significant difference to your day.
I’m going to download it and play with it now, and I’ll write up my experiences in a new post.
Written by Tom Morgan
Tom is a Microsoft Teams Platform developer and Microsoft MVP who has been blogging for over a decade. Find out more.
.Net Demon is a blatant ripoff of NCrunch (http://www.ncrunch.net/) which has been available for well over 6 months and now it seems Redgate are attempting to create an identical copy. Avoid.
For what it’s worth, .Net Demon does NOT automatically run unit tests like NCrunch, and I’m 99% certain during beta it did not do that either.
It is a much smaller product than NCrunch and the cost reflects that (approx 1/5th the price)