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title: "IntelliJ IDEA blows my mind again"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/intellij-idea-blows-my-mind-again.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/intellij-idea-blows-my-mind-again.html"
published: "2004-01-09T21:39:00"
updated: "2004-01-09T21:39:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Ah. Version 4 . And it even has Edit and Continue . How about that? Are you listening, Microsoft? this is the IDE I wish VS.Net could be one day. Please, learn as much as you can from the features of this amazing IDE…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# IntelliJ IDEA blows my mind again

By Roy Osherove January 9, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 9, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Ah. [Version 4](http://www.intellij.com/idea/features4). And it even has [Edit and Continue](http://www.intellij.com/idea/features4). How about that? Are you listening, Microsoft? **this** is the IDE I wish VS.Net could be one day. Please, learn as much as you can from the features of this amazing IDE and make like internet explorer to blow away this new "Netscape".

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Jan 10, 2004

    ### [Service announcement: Source code for MSDN articles now available](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/10/service-announcement-source-code-for-msdn-articles-now-avail.html)

- Jan 10, 2004

    ### [New MSDN article: Turn Your Log Files into Searchable Data Using Regex and the XML Classes](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/10/new-msdn-article-turn-your-log-files-into-searchable-data-us.html)

- Jan 9, 2004

    ### [Debugging Unit tests using the VS.net debugger](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/debugging-unit-tests-using-the-vsnet-debugger.html)

- Dec 29, 2003

    ### [Another article of mine published on MSDN: Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/29/another-article-of-mine-published-on-msdn-search-dynamically.html)


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