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Fabio Franco wrote: desn't Visual Studio already have all that?
Well, some things yes, others no.
There are much more refactorings in ReSharper than in VS - and, as I said, renaming works even in string literals (e.g. comments). Besides that, there is quite intelligent code checking as you type - e.g. ReSharper warns you immediately if there is some unreachable code or a condition that always evaluates to the same result. Then you have support for unit test frameworks like NUnit, MbUnit, Gallio or MSTest - you just have to click on a test to run or debug it...
But I don't want to enlist the many features of ReSharper, what I want to point out is: Once you get used to it, you can code much quicker and better (in terms of quality).
If you're curious: Just download an evaluation (30 days AFAIK) from here^.
Regards
Thomas
www.thomas-weller.de
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
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Thanks, I'm going to have a look on it. Just wish it was free though
Regards,
Fábio
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I remember when about a year ago I used it, it was really slow and I had to uninstall it!!
Hope it's not that slow any more!!
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The current version (4.5) performs pretty good. I don't notice any performance decrease on my development machine (2,6 GHz with 4GB RAM) against plain VS.
(Maybe 2 or 3 seconds on startup - don't know exactly. I always power on VS and then go to the kitchen and get me a coffee first... ).
Regards
Thomas
www.thomas-weller.de
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
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Yeah, that's always been my problem. The VS editor has a hard enough time keeping up with me without something else churning away every time my cursor enters a different scope.
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I've tried on a number of occasions to get hooked on this addin. one deal breaker for me was the amount of extra files it generates per project. One thing that turned me off was features like ugly syntax highlighting that was not configurable and shortcuts that never seemed to remember how I set it. I'm sure they've fixed it by now, but early on when 2008 first came out, it wouldn't work w/ linq (lots of squigglies).
I can see how the tool would help productivity (assuming you had some nasa super computer that didn't lock up with you opened a huge code base like we have), but every time I've tried to fall in love with this tool I end up getting frustrated and uninstalling it. I even came to a point of offering to purchase it for anyone in my company who wanted it (because I really wanted an excuse to use it). but it's always ended up on the cutting room floor.
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I don't want to rely on something that may not be on every system I may need to use.
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Me too,
None, Nada, nothing, plain, vanilla (even though I like chocolate), Zero, cipher,
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These are pieces of software that you install yourself...
As a contractor, whenever I go into a company, I first install my productivity tools (licenses not withstanding) and set about coding...
Then I talk my colleagues into installing them too!
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Hm ... "not every system" ... Not every system has Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or whatever installed
Not every (Windows)-System has Chrome, FF etc. installed but when developing WebApps they also should be tested with those browsers ...
Not "every system" has VirtualSVN installed but often you have to commit to a SVN repositry"
etc.
etc.
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ViEmu[^] looks like something I would like to try some day.
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I knew vi 20 years when I programmed mostly via telnet to the university minicomputers but I have completely forgotten all of it. This was a bit frustrating because one of our linux guys made vi the default editor on all the servers he installed. If it was not for nano I probably would have had to learn it again..
John
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I have tried most of these addons but the best for developers is definitely VA!
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and here.
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...and here.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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But not here...
Wout
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Agreed, I am unable to comprehend how people can attempt to work without VA X, that just crazy!!!
If you have never used it get the free 30 day trial & read the tips, you will never want to go back to the old slow way of writing code, navigating solution & looking for stuff.
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Agreed.
I m using Visual AssistX for more than 4 years. to program without it seems to b a night mare
for the past 6 months, i m also using Resharper. Visual AssistX is much more for the visual effects and formatting. Resharper deals more with the efficiency and quality of the code ( the most simple is removing the unwanted name spaces, ...). SPELL CHECKER is still missing in Resharper. ( i m using VS2005, client requirement )
Using both of them at the same time created a mesh and it proved to b more of a drawback rather than a helping combination. but i managed by customizing both of them as per my requirements.
still i would say, I CANT LIVE {code } without VAX.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight....!
Visit my Home Page.
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Especially when you would like to rename a variable, rename a function, change the signature of a function, etc., How VA can do it in a snap is just awesome. For me, VA is a part of VS itself.
Not to mention how wonderfully it enhances the crappy default intellisense.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Agreed, its essential. Best money I've ever spent.
My complaint is that integrates too well - it becomes part of VS.
So it becomes a silent unsung hero.
I didn't realise just how much it actually does that you take for granted... until I had to reinstall VS one day when it became quickly apparent. Needless to say VA was quickly reinstalled.
They need to add little VA logos next to everything it does!
--
The Obliterator
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...cmk
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
- John Carmack
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shhhhh, I'm trying to swing the survey to that side
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.. but do you use either one?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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