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43 points by AndreyKarpov 15y ago

plasma 15y ago
Great reviews. You may want to check out ReSharper which is just fantastic, http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
- roryokane 15y ago
  Agreed on ReSharper. I found the smart refactoring, enhanced syntax highlighting, and quick Go To File particularly helpful when I used it to work with C#.
- alexro 15y ago
  Everybody using VS should already know about Resharper. But just in case someone doesn't - this is a must to have if you work for enterprise, request it from your employer now!
  - WayneDB 15y ago
    Sorry, but I disagree that this is a must-have. Resharper slows VS down immensely and adds way too much cruft in my opinion.
    - alexro 15y ago
      I'm not noticing it on a VERY large project, but my installed RAM is 12GB. The trade-off between RAM and productivity is in the Reshaper's favour IMO.
      - ralphael 15y ago
        Agreed - the benefits of ReSharper far outweigh the negatives IMHO, it does love RAM though. If its slowing your machine down, there's a few things you can do like turn off code analysis which will help, you can optionally run this later. As for the additional things it "adds", there's pretty much an option to enable/disable/customise everything.
thebrokencube 15y ago
Another good tool (especially if you're a Vim fan) is ViEmu: http://www.viemu.com/ http://www.viemu.com/ . I remember using it a few years ago and it brought over a lot of the functionality that vim users have grown to appreciate. I had a really good experience with the developer as well; he cares and has created a very good addon that I don't think I could live without if I was forced to use Visual Studio. EDIT: So the story, just in case anyone is interested, is this. I was doing an internship at a small healthcare company in the IT department and was writing a web app in asp.net mvc. I downloaded the ViEmu trial and had been running it for about a month and was loving it. But then my trial was about to expire and I only had like 3 weeks left at the company. I made a random one-off comment about how I wished I had just an extra week or two on my trial as this was pretty much the only time I would be using VS. The developer emailed me with an extended trial key and was extremely helpful throughout the entire process.

43 points by AndreyKarpov 15y ago

Great reviews. You may want to check out ReSharper which is just fantastic, http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

roryokane 15y ago
Agreed on ReSharper. I found the smart refactoring, enhanced syntax highlighting, and quick Go To File particularly helpful when I used it to work with C#.
alexro 15y ago
Everybody using VS should already know about Resharper. But just in case someone doesn't - this is a must to have if you work for enterprise, request it from your employer now!
- WayneDB 15y ago
  Sorry, but I disagree that this is a must-have. Resharper slows VS down immensely and adds way too much cruft in my opinion.
  - alexro 15y ago
    I'm not noticing it on a VERY large project, but my installed RAM is 12GB. The trade-off between RAM and productivity is in the Reshaper's favour IMO.
    - ralphael 15y ago
      Agreed - the benefits of ReSharper far outweigh the negatives IMHO, it does love RAM though. If its slowing your machine down, there's a few things you can do like turn off code analysis which will help, you can optionally run this later. As for the additional things it "adds", there's pretty much an option to enable/disable/customise everything.

thebrokencube 15y ago

Another good tool (especially if you're a Vim fan) is ViEmu: http://www.viemu.com/ http://www.viemu.com/ . I remember using it a few years ago and it brought over a lot of the functionality that vim users have grown to appreciate. I had a really good experience with the developer as well; he cares and has created a very good addon that I don't think I could live without if I was forced to use Visual Studio. EDIT: So the story, just in case anyone is interested, is this. I was doing an internship at a small healthcare company in the IT department and was writing a web app in asp.net mvc. I downloaded the ViEmu trial and had been running it for about a month and was loving it. But then my trial was about to expire and I only had like 3 weeks left at the company. I made a random one-off comment about how I wished I had just an extra week or two on my trial as this was pretty much the only time I would be using VS. The developer emailed me with an extended trial key and was extremely helpful throughout the entire process.