IMHO I prefer CodeRush 

The VS2010 version is out now ... Very stable,very performant.

*Update: CodeRush also appears to be cheaper. R#r commercial license appears to be $349 where as CodeRush is $249 dropping to $99 on renewal*

All that said, this is a very personal decision. It will depend very much on what you are after. 

The following is a link to another answer I gave regarding **things to consider when making the decision** between tools like this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593929/comparing-developer-productivity-tools/2599560#2599560
 

The only news right now on the CR front is the short term news that Code Rush Xpress for VS2010 is released whereas the full thing is not as yet.

In addition to Rory&#39;s very complete CR-flavoured review, I thought the one of the most important contributions to the other thread was [this one from DX&#39;s Mark Miller](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24216/resharper-vs-coderush/1930393#1930393) which is pretty measured (We can trust that any factual inaccuracies will result in a swarm of comments from competitor evangilists.)

But I&#39;m voting to close this as its not a new question and doesnt have new answers (Sorry Rory!)

Another vote for CodeRush. Things in CodeRush that are better than R# are: powerful template/plugin engine, more cofigurable, less resource killer.

Today I came across a new CSS syntax that I have never seen before

    content:&quot;\00a0&quot;;

Checking it on [w3schools][1], it explains:

&gt; Definition and Usage
&gt;
&gt;The content property is used with the :before and :after pseudo-elements, to insert generated content.

My question is, can you point out to me in real world example, how do we use this `content` property? And what does the `\00a0` mean in this case?

  [1]: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_gen_content.asp

CSS: content:&quot;\00a0&quot;

What does the `extern` keyword mean? I&#39;ve seen that in front of an function declaration like

    extern void DoFoo ...

What does the extern keyword mean?

Refer to [this post][1] for discussions on previous versions.

Asking the question again since Visual Studio 2010 has been officially released. Does anyone have any visibility this early on as to which is better? What about any other products that may be out there? This one will probably be on my dime, so I&#39;d like the wisdom of those with experience before pulling the trigger on a decision.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24216/resharper-vs-coderush

Resharper vs. Coderush - 2010 remake

<p>Refer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24216/resharper-vs-coderush" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this post</a> for discussions on previous versions.</p>
<p>Asking the question again since Visual Studio 2010 has been officially released. Does anyone have any visibility this early on as to which is better? What about any other products that may be out there? This one will probably be on my dime, so I'd like the wisdom of those with experience before pulling the trigger on a decision.</p>


I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and MVC 2.0 and I noticed the Web.config has two additional files attached to it? Are these files used to specify debug and release specific settings, so you don&#39;t clutter up the main Web.config?

Does it even make sense to place a connection string in the root Web.config file if I have a local and remote one in the debug and release Web.configs respectively?

Thanks!

What are the Web.Debug.config and Web.Release.Config files for?

I&#39;m using Visual Studio 2010 Pro against Team Server 2010 and I had my project opened (apparently) as a solution from the repo, but I should&#39;ve opened it as &quot;web site&quot;. I found this out during compile, so I went to shelve my new changes and deleted the project from my local disk, then opened the project again from source (this time as web site) and now I can&#39;t unshelve my files.

Is there any way to work around this? Did I blow something up? Do I need to do maintenance at the server?

I found [this question on SO #2332685](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2332685/visual-studio-2008-tfs-shelve-unshelve-changes-stopped-working-and-hangs-vs) but I don&#39;t know what cache files he&#39;s talking about (I&#39;m on XP :\ ) 
EDIT: [Found this link after posting the question, sorry for the delay in researching, still didn&#39;t fix my problem](http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2006/07/05/TFS-in-a-lab-environment-_2D00_-Beware-caching-issues.aspx)

Of course I can&#39;t find an error code for TF203015 anywhere, so no resolution either (hence my inclusion of the number in the title, yeah?)

EDIT:
I should probably mention that these files were never checked in in the first place. Does that matter? Can you shelve an unchecked item? Is that what I did wrong?

EDIT:
WHAP - FOUND IT!!! [Use &quot;Undo&quot;](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2770727/how-do-i-remove-files-from-the-pending-changes-list-in-tfs-when-those-files-have) on the items that don&#39;t exist because they show up in pending changes as checkins.

TF203015 The Item $/path/file has an incompatible pending change. While trying to unshelve

In Visual Studio 2010, I have a number of unit tests. When I run multiple tests at one time using test lists, I sometimes reveive the following error for one or more of the tests:

&gt; The agent process was stopped while
&gt; the test was running.

It is never the same test failing, and if I try to run the test again, it succeeds.

I found this [bug report on Connect][1], which seems to be the same problem, but it does not offer a solution. 

Has anyone else seen this behaviour ? How I can avoid it ?

Edit
===
I am still experiencing this bug, and so is many of my colleagues on the same software/hardware setup. I have evaluated the answers so far, but they don&#39;t resolve the problem. I am starting a bounty for a solution to this problem.

  [1]: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/482790/test-agent-stability-problems

VS 2010 Test Runner error &quot;The agent process was stopped while the test was running.&quot;

We just upgraded our Visual Studio 2008 projects to Visual Studio 2010. All of our assemblies were strong signed using a [Verisign][1] code signing certificate. Since the upgrade we continuously get the following error:

&gt; Cannot import the following key file: companyname.pfx. The key file may be password protected. To correct this, try to import the certificate again or manually install the certificate to the Strong Name CSP with the following key container name: VS_KEY_3E185446540E7F7A 

This happens on some developer machines and not others. Some methods used to fix this that worked some of the time include:

 - Re-installing the key file from Windows Explorer (right click on the PFX file and click Install)
 - Installing Visual Studio 2010 on a fresh machine for the first time prompts you for the password the first time you open the project, and then it works. On machines upgraded from Visual&amp;nbsp;Studio&amp;nbsp;2008, you don&#39;t get this option.

I&#39;ve tried using the [SN.EXE][2] utility (Strong Name Tool) to register the key with the Strong Name CSP as the error message suggests, but whenever I run the tool with any options using the version that came with Visual Studio 2010, SN.EXE just lists its command line arguments instead of doing anything. This happens regardless of what arguments I supply.

Why is this happening, and what are clear steps to fix it?  I&#39;m about to give up on [ClickOnce][3] installs and Microsoft code signing.

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign
  [2]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k5b5tt23.aspx
  [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickOnce


Cannot import the keyfile &#39;blah.pfx&#39; - error &#39;The keyfile may be password protected&#39;

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 application.  

 - Web project contains a reference to SomeProject
 - SomeProject contains references to ExternalAssembly1 and ExternalAssembly2.  
 - SomeProject explicitly calls into ExternalAssembly1, but NOT ExternalAssembly2.
 - ExternalAssembly1 calls into ExternalAssembly2

When I perform a local build everything is cool.  All DLLs are included in the bin\debug folder.  The problem is that when I use the Publish Web command in Visual Studio 2010, it deploys everything except ExternalAssembly2.

It appears to ignore assemblies that aren&#39;t directly used (remember, ExternalAssembly2 is only used by ExternalAssembly1).

Is there any way I can tell Visual Studio 2010 to include ExternalAssembly2?

I can write a dummy method that calls into ExternalAssembly2.  This does work, but I really don&#39;t want to have dummy code for the sole purpose of causing VS2010 to publish the DLL.

Visual Studio 2010 Publish Web feature not including all DLLs

I have been using ReSharper for some time and since I can remember every time I install Resharper, it&#39;s default keyboard shortcuts override Visual Studio&#39;s &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt; for &quot;Find&quot; and &quot;File in Files&quot;. It happend with R#3, 4, 5 in VS 2005, 2008 and 2010. 

I don&#39;t have any ideas why would that be a good idea, but if this would bug it would be fixed by now.

Does this even happen to others? I checked around our company and I&#39;m not alone.

ReSharper breaks keyboard shortcuts for &quot;Find&quot; and &quot;Find in Files&quot;

In Visual Studio, is there a window which shows list of methods in the active class? A small window like the Solution Explorer would be great. In Eclipse, there is one.

Visual Studio window which shows list of methods

I am trying to use Code Contract&#39;s Code Snippets but since I turned Resharper back on it doesn&#39;t recognize them. On the other hand, it is recognizing some snippets I&#39;ve implemented myself in the past.

Any ideia of what might be the problem? I&#39;m specifically trying to use `cr` and `ce`, which I think, don&#39;t collide with any other snippets (at least from what I see in the intellisense).

I&#39;m using R# 5 with VS 2010

Thanks

Using VS Code Snippets with Resharper

I&#39;m considering purchasing a [ReSharper][1] license, but are there any possible alternatives to ReSharper and how would you rate these compared to ReSharper?

It doesn&#39;t necessarily have to be a free alternative, but I would just like to know how good equivalent products are.

  [1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/


What are some alternatives to ReSharper?

I&#39;ve gotten accustomed to many of the Java IDEs ([Eclipse][1], [NetBeans][2], and [IntelliJ IDEA][3]) providing you with a command to generate a default constructor for a class based on the fields in the class.

For example:

    public class Example
    {
        public decimal MyNumber { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public int SomeInteger { get; set; }

        // ↓↓↓ This is what I want generated ↓↓↓
        public Example(decimal myNumber, string description, int someInteger)
        {
            MyNumber = myNumber;
            Description = description;
            SomeInteger = someInteger;
        }
    }

Having a constructor populate all of the fields of an object is such a common task in most OOP languages, I&#39;m assuming that there is a some way for me to save time writing this boilerplate code in C#. I&#39;m new to the C# world, so I&#39;m wondering if I&#39;m missing something fundamental about the language? Is there some option in Visual Studio that is obvious?

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBeans
  [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliJ_IDEA


How do I generate a constructor from class fields using Visual Studio (and/or ReSharper)?

When I add new event handler for any event, VS creates method like `object_Click`. 
But ReSharper underlines this method as Warning, because all methods should not have any delimeters such as &quot;_&quot;. 

How can I customize rules of ReSharper so that it doesn&#39;t underline such methods? Or may be I should rename such methods?

Thanks in advance.


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Question	TheHolyTerrah	View Question on Stackoverflow
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Solution 3 - Visual Studio-2010	Mazher Uddin	View Answer on Stackoverflow

Resharper vs. Coderush - 2010 remake

Visual Studio-2010 Problem Overview

Visual Studio-2010 Solutions

Solution 1 - Visual Studio-2010

Solution 2 - Visual Studio-2010

Solution 3 - Visual Studio-2010

What does the extern keyword mean?

CSS: content:"\00a0"

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