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$35 isn't bad, and Reflector is an awesome tool. It'll pay for itself it no time. If it started generating some revenue, they could probably give more time to
by krobertson 16y ago
$35 isn't bad, and Reflector is an awesome tool. It'll pay for itself it no time. If it started generating some revenue, they could probably give more time to it and make it even better.
As a developer, you need to maintain your toolset. $35 is small fries. Sure, enterprisey .NET has a slew of expensive profilers, testing frameworks, and everything, but I think the price for Reflector is very reasonable.
Other fields are far more used to paying for their tools. Construction, mechanics, machinists, mechanical/electrical engineer.
- timrobinson 16y agoBut Reflector was free for years until Red Gate took it on. And since then, Red Gate haven't done a lot with it to justify the cost: apart from the Visual Studio addin, the basic functionality is the same.
- kenjackson 16y agoThe Pro version did add support for debugging which is pretty awesome. The only problem is that you can't add breakpoints into arbitrary points in the IL. You have to be able to access it via the object browser, which requires a public class/method. If they fixed that it would be worth twice its price. Now, I think the technology is great, but not useful for me.
- johnzabroski 16y agoI didn't know that. Thanks for the info about the debugging support. I guess I have to give them credit for that.
- krobertson 16y agoI'll agree that they haven't done a lot, however $35 pays for maybe 30 mins of some devs time? There is no way I'd complain about $35. If they wanted to charge like $300 or $3000, then sure.