David Hayden [MVP C#]

I haven't used this yet, but I really hope that it is not as much of a pain as the equivalent functionality that VB.NET provides. It may be my machine is not zippy enough, but for me in VB it turns coding into a slow and painful experience as after typing keywords your flow of typing is interrupted by VS checking what you have typed.

I've always enjoyed that this did not happen with C#, especially as such mistakes are quite rare, and sometimes intentional (if you haven't added the method declaration yet but are about - such as when writing a unit test).

Also will the bottom-left or bottom-right underscores that offer to add using statements, or to implement methods now be obscured by the squiggles? I hope not.

So how does this really differ from what R# gives you besides the fact that it is built in?

Also, wonder how it plays with R#

I am not sure.

I suspect Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is just doing a "compile" in the background and displaying compiler related errors. As you know, ReSharper goes well beyond compiler errors and gives you warnings and code suggestions that would not be picked up by the compiler.

My favorite example of this is ReSharper's notification icon ( warning ) for an infinite loop in the code :)

Neil,

In the options for the C# editor there are a couple of options that you can turn on and off:

- Underline errors in the editor.

- Show live semantic errors.

It sounds like you have the option to not use this feature if you find it causes you performance problems or is not visually appealing.

"...this is much needed functionality for those developers who are not using ReSharper or another tool that provides similar code analysis in the background."

Do those developers really exist?

Chris,

It is hard to believe, I know :) There are a number of other tools that do not provide "background compiling" or code analysis ( mainly just code highlighting, various macros, etc. ) that a lot of people use and will benefit from this new feature for C# I suspect.

Personally, I probably won't use it.

It's there in eclipse for Java from years...Any way great to have this feature....

Venkat,

I have heard the same thing about IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains as well. I think developers coming from the Java world to .NET miss a lot of the functionality they have enjoyed for years from Java tools in the past.