What are the list of Resharper like plugins for VS I should consider?

Question

My license for Whole Tomatoes Visual AssistX is about to expire and I'm not really planning on renewing it. I use it for spell checking but that's about it. The refactoring abilities have been a little disappointing. Before I just jump into Resharper though what are your thoughts on other possible plugins?

Answer 1

The other major player would be DevExpress and their CodeRush and Refactor products. Found here.

Answer 2

Aside from trying out Visual AssistX, the only other one I've tried is ReSharper (which I highly recommend). If you do decide to go for ReSharper, you'll likely notice that it's missing a spell checker for code though - however the Agent Smith plugin fixes that.

Answer 3

I'll repeat my answer from Essential Programming Tools.

.NET Dev:

* Visual Studio 2008 (can target .NET 2.0 - 3.5)
* Resharper
* MbUnit (backwards compatible with NUnit)
* FogBugz for work tracking
* Subversion for source control
* Red Gate SQL Toolkit
* Google
* Rhino Mocks
* Nant
* KDiff for diff/merging
* MS SQL Express (or go Developer Edition if you have MSDN)

Answer 4

You should take a look at Visual Studio Gallery, the one stop shop for Visual Studio extensions.

Here you'll find quite a lot of extensions for Visual Studio in all categories, from intellisense and refactoring to designers and documentation builders.

Answer 5

Once you get into resharper, you really don't want to leave, its done a massive amount to improve my productivity.

It depends though on what you are doing. Are you doing a lot of TDD when you write tests, write code, then refactor?

Unless you are pretty intensely into refactoring then I'd suggest that you might not get the best of out R#.

As a plugin for a plugin I use the RGreatX plugin for R#. It's really handy for shifting string values out to resource files for localization of the software.....saves me plenty of time!

Answer 6

MZ-Tools is really good as well.

Answer 7

Have you tried model maker code explorer?

It is a great tool in delphi and the visual studio version looks pretty sweet as well. Still trying to work out what the best option for VS is though.