Part of me has always been kinda surprised that Microsoft haven't bought ReSharper from JetBrains and integrated it as a special add-in for the Ultimate branch of Visual Studio.
yep, I remember seeing a few discussions around 'do I really need Resharper with Visual Studio 2010?' because they added a whole bunch of functionality that Resharper had.
I think that Resharper is too bloated and instable. I use only Metascroll (a continuation of Rockscroll) for a fancy scrollbar and highlighting of intersting stuff in source.
There are an awful lot of people who swear by Resharper. If that's all you've replaced it with, it's likely you've not sampled all of the power it gives you.
When I used Visual Studio 2003, Resharper was necessary to get anything done. When I used Visual Studio 2005, Resharper added a bunch of nice features that made it more pleasant. Now, when I'm using Visual Studio 2008, I no longer use ReSharper, since most of the functionality is native. There are a few features I miss, but to me they didn't motivate the longer startup times and general sluggishness that Resharper unfortunately adds.
It's like instant teleportation all over the solution. No mouse. No struggling with the Solution Explorer. Example:
Ctrl+N, type FAM, all classes matching the pascal casing with (F)xx(A)xx(M)xx will be displayed, like FormsAuthManager. Select one with keyboard to navigate to the file. Once there, Ctrl+F12, type VU for ValidateUser and enter to navigate to method, etc.
I've been using visual studio quite awhile now, and am still appalled that there is not good integration with any source control system. Subversion is only 3%!? Shouldn't every coder use source control? TFS doesn't count when CVS, SVN, hg, and git are all free and widely spread. VSS doesn't count either =P The subversion plugins are ok at best.
ReSharper adds a lot of features to VS that is standard in Eclipse and IntelliJ in the Java world, hence many people love ReSharper, esp transplants from the Java world.
visualSVN is good and AnkhSVN is a decent free one. I've never placed a massive priority on source control integration to the IDE though, TortoiseSVN does fine for me.
What workflow do you use that requires it to be integrated into the IDE, or is it just a convenience thing?
I've been using the VisualSVN plugin for the past few years and have found it to be really pleasant. It's $50, but it's been well worth it for me. http://visualsvn.com/
Alternatively, it sounds like AnhkSVN has been making some great strides lately, but a bad experience with it several years back has kept me away from it. They're free, so they might be worth checking out as well. http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/
Visual Studio has built in hooks for adding in source control support. It's not really MS's fault that few take advantage of this. Whenever you create a solution one option is "add to source control", it's up to your current source control extension to take and run with it if you do check that box. In Tools > Options > Source Control, you can choose your source control plugin.
With that said, I never use source control within Visual Studio. I always have good ol' bash running git off to the side. I much prefer my IDE not know nor try to do too much, it often ends up in disaster.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 73.0 ms ] threadInteresting reading nonetheless, the original post has some good comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/09/03/msdn-f...
In fact it prompted this: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/comparisonM...
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
(in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout)
Ctrl+N Go to Type
Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File
Ctrl+F12 Go to Member
These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.
It's like instant teleportation all over the solution. No mouse. No struggling with the Solution Explorer. Example:
Ctrl+N, type FAM, all classes matching the pascal casing with (F)xx(A)xx(M)xx will be displayed, like FormsAuthManager. Select one with keyboard to navigate to the file. Once there, Ctrl+F12, type VU for ValidateUser and enter to navigate to method, etc.
An old but a good start is 31 Days of Resharper:
http://blog.excastle.com/2007/01/31/blog-event-the-31-days-o...
And I agree, those features make you so much more productive!
link: http://code.google.com/p/metalscroll/
ReSharper adds a lot of features to VS that is standard in Eclipse and IntelliJ in the Java world, hence many people love ReSharper, esp transplants from the Java world.
What workflow do you use that requires it to be integrated into the IDE, or is it just a convenience thing?
Alternatively, it sounds like AnhkSVN has been making some great strides lately, but a bad experience with it several years back has kept me away from it. They're free, so they might be worth checking out as well. http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/
With that said, I never use source control within Visual Studio. I always have good ol' bash running git off to the side. I much prefer my IDE not know nor try to do too much, it often ends up in disaster.
If they only could get something that is on par with what Eclipse has I'd be very happy.