Visual Studio Add-Ins (Poll Result) (opens in new tab)

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25 pointsjohnastuntz15y ago27 comments

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yread15y ago· 7 in thread

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.

bruceboughton15y ago

There are an awful lot of people who swear by Resharper. If that's all you've replaced it with, it's likely you've not sampled all of the power it gives you.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

TeHCrAzY15y ago

I think its both. I find it hard to work without resharper, yet it is a bloated, buggy pile of crap at times.

henrikschroder15y ago

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 unfortunately adds.

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yread15y ago

I admit I haven't tried it much.

thebigshane15y ago

Slight correction: MetalScroll, not MetaScroll

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

bradhe15y ago

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

rodh25715y ago

it can be unstable, though the new version has solved most of my problems with it.

bfung15y ago· 4 in thread

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 IntelliJ in the Java world, hence many people love ReSharper, esp transplants from the Java world.

city4115y ago

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.

kylechafin15y ago

I've been using the VisualSVN plugin for the past few years and have found it to be really pleasant. It's $50, but it's been well worth it for me. http://visualsvn.com/

Alternatively, it sounds like AnhkSVN has been making some great strides lately, but a bad experience with it several years back has kept me away from it. They're free, so they might be worth checking out as well. http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

rodh25715y ago

visualSVN is good and AnkhSVN is a decent free one. I've never placed a massive priority on source control integration to the IDE though, TortoiseSVN does fine for me.

What workflow do you use that requires it to be integrated into the IDE, or is it just a convenience thing?

henrikschroder15y ago

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.

mootothemax15y ago· 2 in thread

Part of me has always been kinda surprised that Microsoft haven't bought ReSharper from JetBrains and integrated it as a special add-in for the Ultimate branch of Visual Studio.

Interesting reading nonetheless, the original post has some good comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/09/03/msdn-f...

AndrewDucker15y ago

Yeah, I am also astounded that the refactoring tools in VS haven't been massively beefed up.

bruceboughton15y ago

VS2010 is a step in that direction.

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rbanffy15y ago· 2 in thread

One plugin that would be really useful would be a source verifier that alerts you when your code won't run on, say, a given version of .NET or Mono.

javery15y ago

MoMA kind of does that - http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA

rbanffy15y ago

Cool. Now we need one for Xcode that warns when code won't compile/run on GNUStep

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19 comments · 4 top-level

yread15y ago· 7 in thread

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.

bruceboughton15y ago

There are an awful lot of people who swear by Resharper. If that's all you've replaced it with, it's likely you've not sampled all of the power it gives you.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

TeHCrAzY15y ago

I think its both. I find it hard to work without resharper, yet it is a bloated, buggy pile of crap at times.

henrikschroder15y ago

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yread15y ago

I admit I haven't tried it much.

thebigshane15y ago

Slight correction: MetalScroll, not MetaScroll

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

bradhe15y ago

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

rodh25715y ago

it can be unstable, though the new version has solved most of my problems with it.

bfung15y ago· 4 in thread

ReSharper adds a lot of features to VS that is standard in Eclipse and IntelliJ in the Java world, hence many people love ReSharper, esp transplants from the Java world.

city4115y ago

kylechafin15y ago

I've been using the VisualSVN plugin for the past few years and have found it to be really pleasant. It's $50, but it's been well worth it for me. http://visualsvn.com/

rodh25715y ago

visualSVN is good and AnkhSVN is a decent free one. I've never placed a massive priority on source control integration to the IDE though, TortoiseSVN does fine for me.

What workflow do you use that requires it to be integrated into the IDE, or is it just a convenience thing?

henrikschroder15y ago

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.

mootothemax15y ago· 2 in thread

Part of me has always been kinda surprised that Microsoft haven't bought ReSharper from JetBrains and integrated it as a special add-in for the Ultimate branch of Visual Studio.

Interesting reading nonetheless, the original post has some good comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/09/03/msdn-f...

AndrewDucker15y ago

Yeah, I am also astounded that the refactoring tools in VS haven't been massively beefed up.

bruceboughton15y ago

VS2010 is a step in that direction.

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rbanffy15y ago· 2 in thread

One plugin that would be really useful would be a source verifier that alerts you when your code won't run on, say, a given version of .NET or Mono.

javery15y ago

MoMA kind of does that - http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA

rbanffy15y ago

Cool. Now we need one for Xcode that warns when code won't compile/run on GNUStep

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