Some time ago, one of my friends wrote about the upcoming ReSharper edition for the VS 2005. I’ve checked, downloaded and installed. I could compare this to famous sentence said by Caesar, but not really. I’ve added on more – uninstalled.
At the beginnings everything looks brilliant. My PC didn’t crash. That’s success. Moreover, the Visual Studio started also. That’s even more success, especially because I’m in 64-bit environment. Well, I will pass over in silence that it was started so long, that I’ve started suspecting that someone swaps my CPU to 386. But we can’t be so negative, right? So, after a short checkout if my CPU is till the same (it was, little dusty) I’ve sit down again. Meantime VS has started up. Loading of a project allows me to make a coffee and buy a lunch from a sandwich van. VS was about finishing when I’ve came back (strange transparent window in corner).
Ok, it’s working. I’ve checked a settings, adjusted the code preferences to correct these parts that ReSharper is changing in compare to VS settings, looked for other options and being not sure what to do with them I’ve started working. First, my attention has been turned on small red lines (a lot of them) and orange (a few). I’ve made using optimisation, starting from the top, removed a few “this” and in this way I’ve reached to the first red line. Symbol not found message confused me. A quick scan to .aspx file made me sure – control exists, I was right but ReSharper stubbornly ways no. Hmm… I’ve decided that I’ve lost so many time so far that I can lost a little more and I’ve opened producers webpage. After short search I’ve found solution – error in plugin, will be corrected … shortly. All right, will be pretending that these red lines doesn’t exist if of course I will know which one are from error in plugin and which one from my own bugs.
A little disappointed I’ve started coding. Intellisense didn’t impressed me so much. Supposedly more info but looks strange and works even more. Interesting was, that Shift+Ctrl+Space which should show me the list of parameters with all overloads stopped working. What the hell. I don’t remember all overloads for a lot of methods I’m using, I’m using VS to haven’t remember. Ok, that’s not a big problem, I can use MSDN. Automatic brackets, quotations, formatting … everything works perfect. Just great .. wait, I want this if in single line, don’t expand it. Hey, come back… Without any reason cursor has jumped a few lines down. Well. Just give him a chance.
I was giving him a chance a few days but how long I can? The great tool instead of making my work easier required instant focus on code and makes my work slower in general. That’s enough and I’ve uninstalled it.
Conclusions? ReSharper is the great tool but ... .why duplicate intellisense (even if it is “smart” and “super hiper”) when existing one in VS is good enough. The new one should be more useful but rather turns off very useful feature which I’m habited to, by using “naked” VS. Why duplicate code formatting while existing works well. For adding new options – welcome, but why duplicate existing with changing settings to new default? Because our is better? I don’t like it. I don’t like ReSharper, I will not buy it, not use it. Blah. Going to buy some ice-creams. Bye.