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I am a big fan of JetBrains Resharper for .Net development. It saved me a ton of time refactoring and documenting a large project recently.

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It is without a doubt the best $100 you can spend as a .NET developer. The only complaint I have is that it thrashes the disk because VS can't be arsed to make a 64-bit version, and so there's a stupid memory ceiling.

I actually prefer JetBrains Rider these days. Works great for general C# development, cross-platform, and doesn't thrash my disk like crazy.

Granted, I just spent about two years doing Java dev in IntelliJ and recently moved back over to working with C#. I'd gotten pretty used to working with IntelliJ so that probably colors my viewpoint a little, but the JetBrains IDEs do have some features I really like - the class structure pane, for example, is really useful.

Yeah, it’s just objectively better imo and it addresses GPs wish for a 64bit process.

I am still using some archaic shit like Linq-to-SQL, so VS tooling is still helpful. Otherwise, I would gladly swap over.

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