What are the real benefits of Resharper for Visual Studio and are they worth the price?

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Duplicate of: Using Resharper…Time Saver?

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I have been hearing alot about the resharper product and I have read the benefits on their website.

I would like to know from actual users of the product what they consider to be the invaluable & cannot live without benefits.

Are the benefits worth the purchase especially if you were paying for it yourself?

Answer 1

Numerous postings on this already. Suggest taking a peak at these and getting it so long as you can stand the interface/suggestions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76499/what-is-your-favorite-use-of-resharper http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246581/resharper-has-it-changed-your-programming-life
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2253/is-resharper-worth-the-adjustment-is-there-a-good-tutorial-for-4
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169310/using-resharper-time-saver

Answer 2

Each programmer that uses this tool will have different things that they like. So, I can only speak for myself.

Refactoring

It does it better than the the built-in Visual Studio refactorings.

Code Check

This is my favorite feature. It checks your code for common problems before you build. This catches a lot of stuff, plus it is customizable. It will mark the problems it sees with icons on the right gutter, and use squiggly underlines. This is also customizable. On the top of the right gutter you have a block with red (will not compile), yellow (some problems), and green (A-OK).

We can all describe all of our favorite features, but the best thing you can do is to download a trial and try it out.

Answer 3

I have been an IntelliJ Idea (Java IDE also made by jetbrains) User for some time and using resharper made the switch from Java to C# much easier.