Resharper? What's the big deal?
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ReSharper has two "disadvantages", it takes a while until you a) configured everything so that resharper does it YOUR way b) you learn to utilize all the neat features in your day to day job (there are just too many). But after that - man I tell you, you just can't understand how you could have lived without it. The quality and readability of our code has improved very much an I am a LOT faster analyzing, refactoring and writing code. You can't just look at the featuresheet. You actually have to try it and you must be ready to actually play with it.
bitbonk wrote:
must be ready to actually play with it.
and while I'm playing with it to get it to function unobtrusively I'm loosing productivity.
bitbonk wrote:
The quality and readability of our code has improved very much
I don't need a tool to write quality code that is well structured, extensible and readable.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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bitbonk wrote:
must be ready to actually play with it.
and while I'm playing with it to get it to function unobtrusively I'm loosing productivity.
bitbonk wrote:
The quality and readability of our code has improved very much
I don't need a tool to write quality code that is well structured, extensible and readable.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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And what basis do you have for that arrogant assumption
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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And what basis do you have for that arrogant assumption
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
What I was trying to say with that is that I too can write quality code using notepad but I wouldn't dare... I'd admit that you might lose some productivity while getting R# up and running and learning how to use it effectively but after that chances are that you will be much more productive. R# lets me focus on the code and gets all the noise out of my way. It brings to the table what the java community has been used to for a much longer time. I don't want to spend time formatting code, ordering members, finding implementations of a interface method, waiting for VS to find a symbol for me, writing boilerplate code like .Equals()/.GetHashcode(), do a lot of refactoring manually, creating NUnit tests etc. etc. Because I don't have to do a lot of things that you do, I can write code faster than you.
modified on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 6:42 PM
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What I was trying to say with that is that I too can write quality code using notepad but I wouldn't dare... I'd admit that you might lose some productivity while getting R# up and running and learning how to use it effectively but after that chances are that you will be much more productive. R# lets me focus on the code and gets all the noise out of my way. It brings to the table what the java community has been used to for a much longer time. I don't want to spend time formatting code, ordering members, finding implementations of a interface method, waiting for VS to find a symbol for me, writing boilerplate code like .Equals()/.GetHashcode(), do a lot of refactoring manually, creating NUnit tests etc. etc. Because I don't have to do a lot of things that you do, I can write code faster than you.
modified on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 6:42 PM
again you are making an arrogant assumption for which you have no basis. You have no idea how fast I can type or how my IDE is configured, which other tools I may have. I could say since I have a visual studio 2010 I am faster than someone with visual studio 2008 but that would be incorrect.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Good one. Though I think John eventually became an adopter of multiple monitors. Or at least accepted some of the benefits. :)
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Chris Meech wrote:
I think John eventually became an adopter of multiple monitors
That is funnier than Nemanja's quip! :-D What next, John Simmons in a flowery dress? DD becoming a teetotaller?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I use it primarily to get round the INotifyPropertyChanged code smell issue where you have to specify the name of the property in the event argument
What does Resharper do to help with this?
Regards, Nish
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Sorry mate - I was away from the computer for a while - it searches and replaces in strings on the rename as well.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Sorry mate - I was away from the computer for a while - it searches and replaces in strings on the rename as well.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
Visual Studio's refactor renamer does that as well (optionally).
Phil
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Visual Studio's refactor renamer does that as well (optionally).
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
Not as reliably, it sometimes balks at sorting out the XAML references. R# doesn't.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Sorry mate - I was away from the computer for a while - it searches and replaces in strings on the rename as well.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
it searches and replaces in strings on the rename as well.
Ok, that is useful. :)
Regards, Nish
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I noticed in the thread about what vs2010 add-ons do you use that a lot of people said re-sharper. I looked at the features and I honestly don't see what it brings that's truly useful beyond what you already get in the IDE. To further refine that question about add-on's can people who use Resharper explain what the exact feature of it is that makes it worth while?
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I noticed in the thread about what vs2010 add-ons do you use that a lot of people said re-sharper. I looked at the features and I honestly don't see what it brings that's truly useful beyond what you already get in the IDE. To further refine that question about add-on's can people who use Resharper explain what the exact feature of it is that makes it worth while?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I was tasked with refactoring a major component in one of our products recently. It would have been a complete nightmare without resharper. The 'Find usages' tool, 'Safe Delete', 'Move type/method to another namespace', 'reorder/remove method parameters' and various other functions are so very useful in certain circumstances.
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Lots of people where I work swear by it but personally I find it annoys me more than it helps (incorrectly highlighting things as errors which then go away after a clean + rebuild, that kind of thing). The test runner for running nunit tests within VS works quite well though. Many of the refactorings suggested get overused and in my opinion result in worse code than what was there before (such as replacing all the uses of foreach with a .ForEach() lambda which I see as unnecessary) but each to their own I guess....
Well, all the rules are configurable, so just change them to match how you like to code. You can actually set it to recommend you change the .ForEach to a foreach instead. Personally I just started using it, and I like the recommendations - write some sloppy code and it helps identify ways to clean it up - especially nice for some of my co-workers that write really sloppy code or are junior enough that they don't know all the ins and outs, shortcuts and whatnot.
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I noticed in the thread about what vs2010 add-ons do you use that a lot of people said re-sharper. I looked at the features and I honestly don't see what it brings that's truly useful beyond what you already get in the IDE. To further refine that question about add-on's can people who use Resharper explain what the exact feature of it is that makes it worth while?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Resharper has its fans but, like any add-on, there are those who love it, those who say "why?" and those who hate it. I fall into the first camp. Honestly, Resharper, like any good add-on, does something I could have done myself. After all, isn't that what project templates, snippets, deployment tools, and frameworks in general do? But, like any good add-on, it does it for me in a microsecond, much faster than I ever could and with a lot more quality and consistency. When I rename a method I don't have to figure out if I forgot that last usage when my co-worker walked in my office interrupting me. The IDE itself, and other 3rd party add-ons, do similar things but I've grown used to Resharper and I love the way it works. It just flows. The people at JetBrains (who make Resharper) really know how to write tools that work like a developer, not just something the plug and chugs. Try it and if you like it then use it. If you don't then don't. It's that simple and that's what it comes down to. Again, just like any other good add-on. :)
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I noticed in the thread about what vs2010 add-ons do you use that a lot of people said re-sharper. I looked at the features and I honestly don't see what it brings that's truly useful beyond what you already get in the IDE. To further refine that question about add-on's can people who use Resharper explain what the exact feature of it is that makes it worth while?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There are many things I like about Resharper: * Refactorings - for example ... > being able to convert an auto-property to a property with a backing field because I now need to add behavior in an accessor > being able to convert an anonymous method call into a lambda expression (or back) - which is very useful when teaching coworkers about lambda expressions > there are many others * Static code analysis result indicators in the right margin - where hints/suggestions/warnings/errors are flagged and clickable. * Ctrl+Click - same as F12, but I don't need to move my hand off my trackball. * Letting me know of possible null values (typically from method return values). There are probably other things I like - but I've used R# for so long now that I've forgotten what's R# and what's native to VS. Other things - like identifying naming convention violations - I don't really care about. I know the house rules and don't need to think about them, so don't need a nanny checking up on me.