Scott Guthrie wrote about VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools update, and I went to the Extensions Gallery to download it. I won’t write an overview about it – Scott has already done an excellent job on his blog. You can also find more information on the extension’s page. If you’re a ReSharper addict (like me), you will notice that some things just do not work or interfere with the way ReSharper does things. So here’s a list of things that you can do to make ReSharper and the Productivity Power Tools work nicely together: 1. Go to the Productivity Power Tools under...

Have I mentioned that I love ReSharper? While patiently waiting for the 5.0 release to RTM, the team at JetBrains have shipped the Beta 2 release (build 1618). This is a very stable, very good improvement over the previous nightly builds. One of the things that improved the most with this release is the SSR – Structural Search and Replace. It’s a new feature, allowing you to specify code patterns to be added as hints, errors or warnings to the ReSharper code analysis, as well as specifying a replacement pattern. Here is an example of this feature, taken...

There are tons of options when it comes to configuring your coding style in ReSharper. Somehow I managed to screw the indentation of array and object initializers' variables. This is what it looked like (I use At Next Line (BSD style) setting): int[] array = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 } To fix this, go to Formatting Style -> Other, and set the Continuous line indent multiplier to 1 (mine was 0) And now it's back to normal: int[] array = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 }

I love ReSharper. It has completely changed the way I think about code. When I have to use Visual Studio without ReSharper installed, I feel like I'm writing the code in Notepad. As my first actual post on this blog I'd like to present a few features of ReSharper 4.1 that help me code faster, better, (stronger) and with much higher accuracy. Here are a few things I don't do anymore: 1. Looking for files in Solution Explorer Gone are the days when I have to take my hands off the keyboard to use...

JetBrains just announced that ReSharper 4.5 has reached Beta status, and now available to download. Here are some of my first impressions: The installation was a snap - it asked to remove the previous version (4.1), and installed the new version instead, while keeping the previous settings. There is a noticeable improvement in the Visual Studio 2008 responsiveness after startup, Start Page appears to be frozen much less than before. Memory usage has dramatically improved! devenv.exe is no longer the hungriest process on my system, Firefox has...