Mark Miller (DevExpress) is offering a free for all download of Refactor! for Visual Studio 2005. It includes 25 refactorings, nine of which are dedicated to ASP.NET development (the other 16 work in VB and C# code-behind files). There is also a full-screen training video available for your viewing pleasure.Having used the Pro version of the tool for some time now, I am happy to see that Mark has decided to make some of the features free for public consumption. The features that are available while working with ASP.NET 2.0 are:
- Add Validator
- Extract ContentPlaceHolder
- Extract ContentPlaceHolder (and create master page)
- Extract Style (Class) : Not available inside content pages
- Extract Style (id) : Not available inside content pages
- Move to Code-behind
- Move Style Attributes to CSS
- Rename Style
- Surround with Update Panel: Does not modify the Web.Config file