Comments on: Could You Go Back To Coding Without Resharper?

By: julius

julius — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:32:00 +0000

VS 2010 is unable to fetch the Resharper license from the server at my workplace, becuase I am currently locked out of VPN and I am now using VS2010 without Resharper. It’s just horrible. Live code error checking is disabled by default, you can’t ctrl+click functions and class names, there is no code completion is ascx files, no ctrl+alt+b/go to implementation, no refactoring, etc.

By: Alex Simkin

Alex Simkin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:27:48 +0000

@Mike

“It told me to do things that went against normal coding practices.”
Like what?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:15:19 +0000

After the installation my machine ground to a halt. The intellisense took forever and my keyboard shortcuts were overwritten. It told me to do things that went against normal coding practices. I feel it is for lazy programmers, which is where the suggestion to use it came from.

I have since uninstalled it and like many in my office never plan on using it again.

By: vittore

vittore — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:31:55 +0000

i was using R# for a several month and than go back to plain VS shortcuts. The only feature that i miss so much from R# is a convenient search files through part of identifier name or file name, cuz VS only allows you to quickly open file when you know it’s precious name.

By: Mark Jones

Mark Jones — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:47:06 +0000

I used Resharper from the version 1 days all through 4.5.1.
I saw it become more and more unstable with each new release. I stopped using it at version 4 because it was slowing down VS so much I was actually more productive without it. The Jetbrains folks promised stability and speed improvements in 4.5, so I paid for the upgrade ONCE AGAIN. It was only a few days before I uninstalled it again; I got tired of going into the add-in manager and disabling Resharper so I had some kind of response back in VS after each few minutes of use. I tried a bunch of nightly releases, then 4.5.1, before I finally have officially given up on Resharper as a lost cause.

Oh, and over the years I have submitted many, many issues, discussed these issues in the forums, all to no avail. Resharper is all about new features, and not about stability of existing features.

By: Kirk Klobe

Kirk Klobe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:24:15 +0000

You’ll take my Resharper when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

By: David Ridgway

David Ridgway — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:29:32 +0000

Can’t beat R#, especially in a Team Dev environment, you can enforce code normalization without killing your entire team! Set up the templates properly or even easier run the code clean up yourself before a build! Once you get the hang of it, the shortcut Jedi comes out in you and I figure I’m at least 2 times faster than without it. I really can’t handle using the VS (not so) intellisense anymore so would find it hard to give it up!

I still have some 10% discount coupons and 60 day extended trial licenses for ReSharper 4.5 if anyone is interested, see here for details:

http://web2asp.net/2009/09/resharper-discount-and-extended-trial.html

By: Simon Martin

Simon Martin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:20:53 +0000

Personally I love CodeRush – and they’re looking at introducing a Test Runner with it. Having seen this used in many DimeCasts I think this will be an awesome feature and will maybe persuade some R# users to have a serious look at CodeRush.

The sheer number of shortcuts in R# is a bit bewildering in CodeRush there’s just 1 shortcut that gives access to most of the refactorings so the learning curve is not as steep and you can become very productive very quickly.

Could I go back to working without CodeRush? Of course, I could do all my coding in Notepad… but I wouldn’t like it for long.

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By: Soulhuntre

Soulhuntre — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:09:30 +0000

For me it’s CodeRush (I’ve tried both, CR suits me much better than R#). In any case, I certainly can code without it, but I am much faster with it.

Ken

By: darren

darren — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:30:37 +0000

I have used R# for I don’t know how long. Every once in a while I’ll load up CodeRush to see if it is any better and every time I wind up un-installing it and going back to R#.

In CodeRush I start typing then all of a sudden it is like my screen is exploding! I find that I can’t work without my Find Usages or my Code Cleanup. But the worst is when I type {, I expect a } to show up but NO! I have to type it myself! The Horror!

R# for ever.

By: Andrey Titov

Andrey Titov — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:17:25 +0000

I have tried to start using Resharper several times, but finally I throws it away. It takes too much attention to itself. Resharper releases often are unstable. It uses too much memory, it appreciably reduces VS responsiveness. It is too smart – it tries to make me feel that it’s better know how to write the code I’m writing. As if somebody seat behind my back and on each typed word cries that I’m doing all wrong, that this “if” should be written in reverse way, and if I click on it’s suggestioning lamp and allow to switch order, than it again cries “did you know that reverse order is also possible? :-p”. This makes me furious.

For me Resharper is not tool for development (implementation). Yes, it provides a lot of things for speed up coding, but it also have a much things for distract you from logic you implementing and take too much attention on code you write.

Resharper is a great tool for organize code. When you finished some part of functionality and get it work, than you can seat down with Resharper and make the code looks perfect. But I usually produce the good code at once, that there nothing to do with Resharper.

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:29:43 +0000

My trial expired and I am to cheap to buy it… yet. But I hated switching back to plain old visual studios, I really miss a bunch of the features.

By: JeroenH

JeroenH — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:09:38 +0000

I really like R# but for large solutions it can become a real memory hog (just look at the number of ‘OutofMemory’ exception reports on their issue tracker site…). Also for large files (typically designer-generated), it can become very very slow.

Still can’t live without it but it’s really annoying.

By: Aaron Powell

Aaron Powell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:19:56 +0000

I’ve never saw the appeal of ReSharper, it always seemed that it was trying to do too much.

I’ve been using CodeRush express for a long time, I found it a nice balance between VS shortcuts and logical tools. I don’t get why ReSharper needs to have live templates which always seemed to be like snippets, etc.

I could survive quite easily without any plugins

By: Hernan Garcia

Hernan Garcia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:56:55 +0000

No, specially for the refactorings. Either Resharper or CodeRush but no barebones VS. I’m playing with VS 2010 and even when they have some nice features added, like generate from usage, I’m still missing Resharper.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:37:34 +0000

As someone else said, the real power of R# is in its shortcuts. I’m not saying that extensive use of shortcuts is the only way to go in an addin (as someone else said Coderush uses the mouse to good effect), but with R#, once you learn the shortcuts you barely touch the mouse.

The only time I touch the mouse now is when navigating code using ctrl-click and debugging. When I’m programming, I’m pretty much 100% keyboard navigation + shortcuts now.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:33:33 +0000

Not a chance. Seriously, I’ve become addicted to some of the features.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:24:40 +0000

To Ercu,
I think the price is not that bad at all … free would be better … but compare to what developers are making …. I think it is reasonable. I cannot imagine carpenters without proper tools (though they are expensive for a lot of people).

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:22:05 +0000

I am the only developer in my company using Resharper. It becomes a pain every time I need to help another person and using the person’s bare environment. I am trying to convince my boss to give everyone a Resharper license. …