Scott Bellware

Kinda funny... since the DevExpress guys had to be tutored on test-driven development and ReSharper workflows by ReSharper users.  They are two very different tools because their objectives are night-and-day different from each other.  I expect DevExpress to not understand ReShaprer - they're not TDD people.  That's perfectly OK.  They write a tool for folks who aren't particularly practiced in OO design beyond basic tight coupling patterns like inheritance.  You'll never see ReSharper get the same amount of friendliness from Redmond as ReShaper's implied practices contradict much of what Microsoft recommends.  Building yet more tools to support Microsoft's tool-driven rather than craft-driven approach to software design and implementation won't bring you into contact with the skills, knowledge, principles, and practices that are inherent and implied in ReSharper.  Sitting in my hotel room until 3am at an MVP summit and watch as TDD was painstakingly explained to Mark Miller was a watershed moment in my understanding of just how little DevExpress understandings contemporary software engineering.  I would trust DevExpress' perspective on ReShaprer no father than I could throw Mark Miller.  That's not to say that DevExpress' tools are the right ones for you and your team, but they understand very little about why ReSharper is used.

Conference panel discussions are this good.  Every conference I've been to in recent memory have been this good.  But, I no longer attend conferences who's content is dictated by a signle vendor, eg: Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, etc.  If you want good content, you have to stop trusting conferences whose goal it is to sell products.  If you want a sales pitch, go to Tech Ed or PDC.  If you want to learn, go to a non-sales conference.