Friday, June 25, 2010

JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 screen refresh issue and workaround

Problem:
I have ran across an issue with Visual Studio 2008 and JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 which prevents part of the screen from refreshing properly. This is frustrating at times because it even affects the scrollbar from functioning forcing you to use the keyboard to scroll through your code.

Workaround
To work around this you can DISABLE and ENABLE JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 in the Add-in Manager of Visual Studio.

Disable:
Open up Add-In Manager from the menu Tools->Add-in Manager.
Uncheck JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 and click OK.
It is good to disable before checking code into TFS or when reviewing existing code.

Enable:
Open up Add-In Manager from the menu Tools->Add-in Manager.
Check JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 and click OK.
It is good to enable when you are writing new code or doing any refactoring.


I have not seen any fix for this bug yet, but until then this workaround is not too time consuming.

Cheers!