- #Resharper vs visual assist update#
- #Resharper vs visual assist driver#
- #Resharper vs visual assist code#
#Resharper vs visual assist code#
You do use spaces instead of tabs, right? I mean, it’s the only way code should be written.
Notably, this is where you set the option to use spaces instead of tabs in your code. Here’s where you can define, on a per-language basis, the formatting, indentation, and brace style that you prefer. The next major section in the Options dialog that you’ll almost certainly want to customize is the Text Editor section (See Figure 2). I find this makes code cleanup easy when it’s time to think about shipping a project.
The default tokens are “TODO” and “HACK”… but you can of course add your own. This allows you to leave notes to yourself about things that you want to return to in the code, and these notes are all gathered in one place within your solution. These comments, and the file and line on which they appear, will be picked-up by VS and listed in the VS “Task List” window (that you can show via View -> Task List). This section allows you to define a set of “tokens” that can appear in your comments. This section is often overlooked, I think. Note that changes do not take effect immediately, so you’ll have to click “OK” to close the Options dialog before you see your results.Īnother small item that you’ll see in the Environment section is the Task List subsection. It certainly true that you can easily go crazy here and wind-up with a mess, so make changes gradually. Some people like a more muted palette of colors with most syntax elements being in similar colors (this is the VS default), and others like more aggressive color coding. Preferences for exactly how and what you highlight vary widely among developers, so there’s no single scheme that will work for everyone. And I like my local variable names to be bold. For example, I like comments to be in gray. Here you can change how VS syntax highlighting colors various things.
#Resharper vs visual assist update#
Unless you’re into boring, monochromatic, color-coding and green comments (I *hate* green comments) you’ll want to take some time and update the Fonts and Colors subsection (shown in Figure 1). I recommend you just take the time to walk through each of the various subsections and the options they contain some afternoon. Here, you can customize things ranging from the overall color scheme (you’ve probably already changed that) to how the “tabs” for each document that you have open in the editor look. The first set of options are in the Environment section.
#Resharper vs visual assist driver#
But in terms of customizing your driver coding environment, there are two or three primary option sections that you will definitely want to play with. The exact number of options depends on what you’ve installed with VS. Just opening the dialog box from “Tools -> Options… “, presents you with around two dozen primary sets of options that you can play with. In case you haven’t noticed, there are at least 32 million different things you can set, change, or tune within Visual Studio. I’ll even give you a few ideas on where you can start. Take a Friday afternoon and spend time on Visual Studio customization settings. And, yes, I hesitate to say it, but you will be more productive. You’ll find the VS editor less annoying every time you use it. The thing is, with Visual Studio, time spent getting your environment customized to your needs and preferences will be time well spent. You don’t want to spend time fooling with your environment. You just want to open a project and get busy writing your code. If you’re like me, you’ve got work to do. Interestingly, these two things work together. Selecting the right set of Visual Studio Extensions.Taking the time to customize the environment.I found that there are two primary keys to becoming happy with VS. Over the years, Visual Studio and I have come to an understanding. Whenever I tried to use VS for driver development in the past, I was always frustrated with strange behavior (“Why does it insist on indenting my case statements incorrectly!”), lame and close to useless syntax highlighting, and pointless information panes. But now I’ve fully bought-in to using Visual Studio (VS) as an editor for driver development.
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