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I'm always shocked to see this. In my experience ReSharper is an unusable hog. It absolutely destroys VS performance, and the UX is abysmal. This only got worse in VS2015.

I keep giving ReSharper chances because of all the praise I see, and I always leave disappointed. I'm starting to suspect JetBrains is hitting these threads singing their own praises :).

That said, I do love some of their other products like dotTrace, dotMemory, etc.

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The only time ReSharper slows down your system is when you load your project for the first time. But I'm more than happy to wait for an second (we have ~100 projects in our solution) so I can harness all the greatness that comes with it. If you're not finding it useful, perhaps you're not taking advantages of the right features? Here's some of my favorite shortcuts, I'll let you try them on your own.

- ctrl+shift+l

- ctrl+\

- ctrl+r+r

- ctrl+shift+t

- alt+insert

Many people have asserted this, but it's not true. As long as ReSharper is active it does have a performance impact. The impact varies depending on the current action, and yes opening a new project does have the largest impact.

Honestly, I'm done giving ReSharper chances. Of all the times I've tried it, I've yet to encounter any feature that justifies the wet blanket thrown over the IDE. I've tried on large projects and small projects, across multiple computers. I've followed JetBrains' recommendations for improving performance. The performance impact is noticeable, and the UX drives me nuts.

Like I said, I like some other products from JetBrains, but ReSharper just isn't for me. If it works for you, and the impact is negligible enough to not matter, thats great.

Hi Isadam0, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks.

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