Visual Studio Add-Ins (Poll Result)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/09/20/visual-studio-add-ins-poll-result.aspx

by johnastuntz • 16 years ago

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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...

AndrewDucker2• 16 years ago

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

bruceboughton2• 16 years ago

VS2010 is a step in that direction.

yread3• 16 years ago

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.

bruceboughton2• 16 years 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.

TeHCrAzY• 16 years ago

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

yread3• 16 years ago

I admit I haven't tried it much.

henrikschroder4• 16 years 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.

rodh2573• 16 years ago

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

thebigshane• 16 years ago

Slight correction: MetalScroll, not MetaScroll

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

bradhe• 16 years 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.

rbanffy2• 16 years ago

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.

javery• 16 years ago

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

rbanffy2• 16 years ago

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

bfung• 16 years ago

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.

rodh2573• 16 years 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?

kylechafin• 16 years 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/

city41• 16 years 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.

henrikschroder4• 16 years 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.

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