ReSharper 5 – and I thought 4 was good
Reading this preliminary list of the upcoming features of ReSharper 5, it makes me wonder how any .NET developer could ever be without a tool like this. Among the favorites would have to be Project Refactorings, and Call/Value Tracking. Genius.
Having used the refactoring-and-[insert feature here]-anaemic Flex Builder 3 at length on a few recent projects, life just seems to get better and better in Visual Studio land.
Visual Studio Silverlight/xaml bug
This one was driving me crazy for at least a few hours. On a fresh install of VS2008 & Silverlight 3 tools, there was no xaml code highlighting at all, no intellisense, nothing - just like any ordinary text file. Checking the same project on another machine, it was all fine. So I starting disabling/uninstalling all VS plugins (ReSharper, AnkhSVN), but still no luck. Was starting to think I'd have to reinstall VS...
The solution was simple enough - run the VS Command Prompt, and enter:
devenv /resetskippkgs
Problem solved. Apparently a good one to try whenever you lose formatting or Intellisense features.
