Brennan’s Blog

I have been tracking the frequent ReSharper builds lately with varying degrees of satisfaction. After the Build 221 install I left work, went to a coffee shop and experienced major issues. It seemed to hang, like it was trying to do something, so I would wait and finally restart Visual Studio 2005. And I had to do that multiple times. Later at home, with an active internet connection, it worked without a problem. Later released appear to have eliminated this issue.

Otherwise I have experienced database connection failures when open a solution. It does not tell me which database failed to connect, which would actually be useful among my multiple database instances. I dug around in the Server Explorer and in Database Managment Studio to ensure my access info was correct but I could not stop the errors. It turns out it was 3 separate MDF files created as SQL 2005 Express databases for ASP.NET projects in the App_Data folders. I do not use them, so by deleting them I was able to make the errors go away.

Today I see that Build 227 is available. I am sure it is more bug fixes and hopefully performance improvements to speed up the startup time. I think they are getting pretty close to a fast and stable release.