Since Visual Studio 2008 came out I've been extremely impressed with the software. One shortcut which I believe probably exists in CodeRush and Resharper is the ability to find the using directive needed at any given time. in VS2008 you can press ctrl + . and a little menu will appear which will add using directives for you. This makes writing ...

Not sure if it's already there, but the folks at DevExpress or JetBrains (or Microsoft, but I don't want to wait for another VS) should have a refactoring for CodeRush/Refactor! or Resharper that will convert verbose properties into C# 3.5 short properties, like so: Make this: protected bool isSponsored = false;public bool IsSponsored{ get { ...

I'm in the midst of wrapping up a multi-year long project to replace the advertising engine used to host sponsored ads on a few dozen .NET web sites.  This system traces its "lineage" back to an old ASP application written in 2001 (it served its first 207 impressions on 31 March 2001), and has since been upgraded to ASP.NET ...