During my work on the InfoGalleri suite of applications, I’ve had the misfortune of working with Visual Studio 2005. In summary, i consider working with Visual Studio a misfortune because it
- is incapable of debugging multiple applications at once.
- manages to slow my machine down beyond anything I’ve experienced with any other application.
- lacks support for basic features, such as showing a list of all usages of a given symbol
- takes 4-5 minutes to start with a 30-project solution
I am sure that I could think of more reasons given a bit more time.
But I digress. This post is really supposed to be about the ReSharper plugin for Visual Studio. I was recently directed toward ReSharper by a colleague of mine, and having worked with it for about a month, I don’t really see how I ever coped without it. While it doesn’t do anything to speed up Visual Studio, it massively improves productivity. It extensively improves Visual Studios support for automatic code generation, refactoring, autocompletion and in-code navigation.
If you work with Visual Studio, I strongly suggest you give it a try. It’s available as a 30 day free trial here.