ReSharper 5 – and I thought 4 was good

Marcus — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:12:27 +0000

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

Marcus — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:45:42 +0000

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.

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ReSharper 5 – and I thought 4 was good

Visual Studio Silverlight/xaml bug