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.

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.