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Jonathan Carter • Edited

Personally no. I find that VS has enough productivity features built-in as of VS2019, that I haven’t found the need to use many extensions (other than IntelliCode, which my team also builds). That’s just me though!

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Yaser Al-Najjar

I always felt resharper is always ahead of what intellicode offers (for real... not being a jerk here 😅).

I know intellicode always catches up with whatever resharper has in their feature set.

But, I feel that resharper features are more solid.
The last time I tried refactoring, resharper had it better (discovering which vars need to change in all different files including cshtml).

Generating snippets too, like interfaces from ready classes or grabbing interface functions into a class that implements that interface.

One of the cool features that I recently saw was outstanding, showing vars values on the same line while debugging:

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Jonathan Carter

Thanks for the feedback! I'll make sure to share that with the right folks.