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I think that Resharper is too bloated and instable. I use only Metascroll (a continuation of Rockscroll) for a fancy scrollbar and highlighting of intersting stuff in source.

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There are an awful lot of people who swear by Resharper. If that's all you've replaced it with, it's likely you've not sampled all of the power it gives you.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

I think its both. I find it hard to work without resharper, yet it is a bloated, buggy pile of crap at times.

When I used Visual Studio 2003, Resharper was necessary to get anything done. When I used Visual Studio 2005, Resharper added a bunch of nice features that made it more pleasant. Now, when I'm using Visual Studio 2008, I no longer use ReSharper, since most of the functionality is native. There are a few features I miss, but to me they didn't motivate the longer startup times and general sluggishness that Resharper unfortunately adds.

How do you replace Navigate functionality of Resharper in native 2008?

(in IntelliJ IDEA keyboard layout)

Ctrl+N Go to Type

Ctrl+Shift+N Go to File

Ctrl+F12 Go to Member

These three bindings alone can make any developer 2-3x productive in daily coding activities.

I use a smaller plugin for that called StudioTools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx

And I agree, those features make you so much more productive!

Three times more productive?

I believe so.

It's like instant teleportation all over the solution. No mouse. No struggling with the Solution Explorer. Example:

Ctrl+N, type FAM, all classes matching the pascal casing with (F)xx(A)xx(M)xx will be displayed, like FormsAuthManager. Select one with keyboard to navigate to the file. Once there, Ctrl+F12, type VU for ValidateUser and enter to navigate to method, etc.

An old but a good start is 31 Days of Resharper:

http://blog.excastle.com/2007/01/31/blog-event-the-31-days-o...

Is it different from F12 Go to definition in VS?

Yes, that is what you use to follow a chain of definitions from one file to the next. The smart goto functionality allows you to start typing the name of any type in your project and navigate to it, or start typing the name of any filename in your project and navigate to it.

Try out the StudioTools plugin I linked to above and see what you think. Default is alt+o to open any file, and ctrl-g to go to any type.

I admit I haven't tried it much.

Slight correction: MetalScroll, not MetaScroll

link: http://code.google.com/p/metalscroll/

I agree a bit. Unless you have a real ballsy machine you notice a pretty significant performance hit -- especially wrt the intellisense related tools.

it can be unstable, though the new version has solved most of my problems with it.

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