My experience of the StyleCop plugin for Resharper is that it takes over too many of the Resharper functions that it makes it annoying. I use Resharper and find myself lost when its not installed. It's a dependency I'm happy to have, as the way I look at it is that its handling trivial tasks that my brain would have to do otherwise. The fewer things I have to think about, the more I can concentrate on the problem at hand rather than silly things like could this variable be null? etc. You can get away with one hotkey (Alt-Enter) with Resharper, and possibly Ctrl-Shift-R for refactor. The rest I tend to drive via the Resharper menu as I forget them. If you go along to your local user group then you might be able to win a license. All user groups should be able to raffle off a license each month. If you buy the current version then your key will work with version 5 when it's released. There are some nice new features in 5.
+1 Resharper. no make that... +10 cheers, Stephen On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, a few years ago I tried ReSharper (dunno what version), but I > found it so “aggressive” in altering my keystrokes and the editing behaviour > that it drove me mad and I gave up on it. At the time I wished for some kind > of “ReSharper Lite”. Over the Silverlight Code Camp weekend I saw a few > people using the latest version, and it seems to be much more pleasant > experience with lots of nifty new features. I also hear people making > passing comments about how much they like it. > > > > I’d like to hear from anyone who can convince me that the $US199 price tag > for a personal licence is really worth it. Does ReSharper REALLY make you > more productive in your day to day coding. In a nutshell, what are the > features that you love the most? Can I configure it to prevent hijacking all > of my familiar keystrokes, or should I not do that and learn to live with > it? Any bad points or learning difficulties? Is it stable? > > > > I use FxCop, but people were talking about StyleCop last week, and I notice > there’s a ReSharper plugin for it. It looks like it’s rules are so strict > that they’d drive you insane. Does it? Or perhaps it can be configured to be > less intrusive to the level you like. > > > > Greg > > >
