I definitely agree. I have installed it several times over the years and subsequently un-installed it due to performance issues, lag etc. Since version 4.5 I have had no issues and am currently using 5.0.
Visual studio 2010 now provides a small number of features that have been in Resharper for sometime (eg Navigate To, supporting camelCase) however Resharper is still worth having in 2010 and *essential* in <=2008. The productivity increase (including finding silly bugs) pays for itself after about 2 days... Some of my favourites are: Go to Symbol (Shift Alt T) - finds any method, field, class in your solution Smart code completion (Ctrl-Alt-Space) - like control-space but only show types that are valid (why is this not the default !?) Import symbol completion (Shift+Alt+Space) -- If you can't quite remember the name of a class you can start typing the first few characters and then press the key combination and ALL possible classes (including ones not imported) are shown. This one my brain really likes because that kind of drudgery stresses it. ! Consider the case when you have an extension method and you can't quite recall the exact name of it.... (assume Extension method defined in different namespace) myObj.SomeExtMet... (what was the *exact* bl#$dy name of that method again!?) Shift-Alt-Space ! ahhhh Wal From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Wheat Sent: Monday, 26 April 2010 9:21 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Designer crash cause found Version 4.5 is excellent and 5.0 went RC recently. It's certainly worth the money... From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 26 April 2010 7:04 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Designer crash cause found Can i also suggest Resharper, which would have indicated the following 3 errors/highlights: That's really impressive (lord knows how they hook into the VS IDE at that incredibly detailed level!). I asked about the bang-for-the-buck of paying for Resharper last year, but I received inconclusive replies. Then I see the occasional complaint about obscure bugs and behaviour caused by it and I get nervous. I evaluated it about 4 years ago and I found it so heavy-handed that it drove me mad, and I was wishing for some kind of Resharper-lite at the time. For the moment I remain too scared to buy Resharper, unless someone can preach to me about its miracles and give me an epiphany. Greg
