ReSharper 2.0 is finally out. After months of waiting and numerous alpha releases (mostly highly unstable and slow) we got a final release that works reasonably well.

Its installation is still painfully long (relative to its size) and it does slow down the loading times of Visual Studio 2005 considerably. Once loaded though it works just fine, assuming you don’t run into configuration issues.

At least on my machine, I installed the final version over a beta (there was only one). As far as I can see, the installer first uninstalled the beta and then installed the final version. It looked like all of the settings were preserved but in order to get color coding to work I still had to go to Tools->Options->Fonts and Colors, notice that settings are OK (but not applied to the code windows at the moment), press OK and then find the color coding working.

Only to discover that something is slowing down the code windows to the point that scrolling would choke if I would try to scroll up/down too fast. It felt sluggish, exactly what you don’t want your editing experience to be.

Tried several things, restarting Visual Studio, changing more Visual Studio settings, nothing worked. Then I went to ReSharper’s settings and tweaked a few more things and voila – everything works now. Note that none of the settings I changed should have influenced the speed (none of them put more or less burden on ReSharper’s parsing of your code).

So if you run into this problem try resetting the settings or tweaking them a bit…