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Can someone explain to me the big deal about ReSharper? Sure, I tried Refactory
and I dug it. I know they disappeared and screwed some folks over, but it was
a nice solid offering. Now everyone is talking about ReSharper,
and forgive me, but I'm just not feeling it.
It feels VERY unpolished, and there's just no excuse for lack of polish these days.
It looks lousy at ANY "unusual" font size (Lucida Console 14pt Bold)
It's context menus are far to deep to be useful.
It doesn't support a very wide range of refactorings, and it doesn't appear to glean
a lot from the context of the current cursor position.
Frankly, it looks like a Java program (wonder why? ;) ) and just doesn't fit in Visual
Studio.NET.
On the other hand, CodeRush is
continuing to blow me away.
It's polished
It's radically customizable (almost to a fault)
It's easily extensible by a code plugin model OR standard Regular Expressions
It's graphics are JAW DROPPING. You literally have to see it to believe it.
The Linked Identifiers are crazy useful.
It takes a little while to get use to, and I need to make a cheat sheet to keep track
of the shortcuts, but I'm digging it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Sorry to sound like such a P.I.M.P. for these guys, but seriously, it's pure sex.
The UI stuff is hotter than Whidbey. If you see me at TechEd, holler at me and
I'll give you a demo.
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