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Post by city41 »

bfung wrote: post #15

I've been using visual studio quite awhile now, and am still appalled that there is not good integration with any source control system. Subversion is only 3%!? Shouldn't every coder use source control? TFS doesn't count when CVS, SVN, hg, and git are all free and widely spread. VSS doesn't count either =P The subversion plugins are ok at best. ReSharper adds a lot of features to VS that is standard in Eclipse and In…

Visual Studio has built in hooks for adding in source control support. It's not really MS's fault that few take advantage of this. Whenever you create a solution one option is "add to source control", it's up to your current source control extension to take and run with it if you do check that box. In Tools > Options > Source Control, you can choose your source control plugin.

With that said, I never use source control within Visual Studio. I always have good ol' bash running git off to the side. I much prefer my IDE not know nor try to do too much, it often ends up in disaster.

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Post by henrikschroder »

gokhan wrote: post #12
henrikschroder wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I used Visual Studio 2003, Resharper was necessary to get anything done. When I used Visual Studio 2005, Resharper added a bunch of nice features that made it more pleasant. Now, when I'm using Visual Studio 2008, I no longer use ReSharper, since most of the functionality is native. There are a few features I miss, but to me they didn't motivate the longer startup times and general sluggishness that Resharper un…

How do you replace Navigate functionality of Resharper in native 2008? (in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout) Ctrl+N Go to Type Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File Ctrl+F12 Go to Member These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.

I use a smaller plugin for that called StudioTools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx

And I agree, those features make you so much more productive!

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Post by henrikschroder »

yread wrote: post #16
gokhan wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you replace Navigate functionality of Resharper in native 2008? (in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout) Ctrl+N Go to Type Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File Ctrl+F12 Go to Member These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.

Is it different from F12 Go to definition in VS?

Yes, that is what you use to follow a chain of definitions from one file to the next. The smart goto functionality allows you to start typing the name of any type in your project and navigate to it, or start typing the name of any filename in your project and navigate to it.

Try out the StudioTools plugin I linked to above and see what you think. Default is alt+o to open any file, and ctrl-g to go to any type.

Re: Visual Studio Add-Ins (Poll Result)

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Post by henrikschroder »

bfung wrote: post #15

I've been using visual studio quite awhile now, and am still appalled that there is not good integration with any source control system. Subversion is only 3%!? Shouldn't every coder use source control? TFS doesn't count when CVS, SVN, hg, and git are all free and widely spread. VSS doesn't count either =P The subversion plugins are ok at best. ReSharper adds a lot of features to VS that is standard in Eclipse and In…

The problem is that version control system integration in VS itself is usually worse than the same integration in the regular filesystem explorer.

If they only could get something that is on par with what Eclipse has I'd be very happy.

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Post by gokhan »

arethuza wrote: post #14
gokhan wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you replace Navigate functionality of Resharper in native 2008? (in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout) Ctrl+N Go to Type Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File Ctrl+F12 Go to Member These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.

Three times more productive?

I believe so.

It's like instant teleportation all over the solution. No mouse. No struggling with the Solution Explorer. Example:

Ctrl+N, type FAM, all classes matching the pascal casing with (F)xx(A)xx(M)xx will be displayed, like FormsAuthManager. Select one with keyboard to navigate to the file. Once there, Ctrl+F12, type VU for ValidateUser and enter to navigate to method, etc.

An old but a good start is 31 Days of Resharper:

http://blog.excastle.com/2007/01/31/blog-event-the-31-days-o...

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Post by thebigshane »

yread wrote: post #4

I think that Resharper is too bloated and instable. I use only Metascroll (a continuation of Rockscroll) for a fancy scrollbar and highlighting of intersting stuff in source.

Slight correction: MetalScroll, not MetaScroll

link: http://code.google.com/p/metalscroll/

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Post by AndrewDucker »

rodh257 wrote: post #17
bruceboughton wrote: post #5

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VS2010 is a step in that direction.

yep, I remember seeing a few discussions around 'do I really need Resharper with Visual Studio 2010?' because they added a whole bunch of functionality that Resharper had. In fact it prompted this: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/comparisonM...

Yeah, as that makes clear, Resharper is still staggeringly better.

Re: Visual Studio Add-Ins (Poll Result)

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Post by bradhe »

yread wrote: post #4

I think that Resharper is too bloated and instable. I use only Metascroll (a continuation of Rockscroll) for a fancy scrollbar and highlighting of intersting stuff in source.

I agree a bit. Unless you have a real ballsy machine you notice a pretty significant performance hit -- especially wrt the intellisense related tools.
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