Sunday, January 14, 2007

Today I realized exactly how much I love to code. Like having the Event Logs emailed to me if an error occurs or checking the Event Logs from my website. I'm glad to have such an opportunity and chance to get to learn something new every single day I code and know that whatever I do or need, an answer is there. If not, then I get the chance to figure it out, get all excited about it, then post it and share to the world. So, I love programming and get to do it everyday is even more fun. Now to just complete all the work I just realized I now need to do...

I did a review this month of all of the popular products for easier web application development for ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005. With all of the irritating frustrations and advancements of features they provided, I found that ReSharper was the most "useful" tool. Reason? I like to work, not play and time management is crucial in my job. If I need to quickly format my code, all of the code in the project, I can. If I need to have "real-time" error analysis while typing my code, I can. ReSharper provides all the tools I need to ACTUALLY get work done. As far as CodeRush? I found myself playing with CodeRush than working. CodeSmith is a great tool for what it offers and Visual Assist X (as what the name implies) assists in the visuals of your code and lets you read code better. But when your need work done and need to code fast, ReSharper is the tool for speed demons. Now for the disappointments in ReSharper (it's not perfect yet)? There's no extensive support for XML usage, minor delay when loading large projects, and sometimes requires a reinstall when loading projects and the CPU reaches a constant 100% usage. Like I said, it's not perfect yet but VERY useful for what it offers. So, patience will be implied until these bugs are fixed or something better comes around...