Keymaps for ReSharper

A few weeks ago, during an IM conversation with Ilya Ryzhenkov from JetBrains – I was challenged to swap from the ReSharper IntelliJ/Idea keyboard scheme that I’ve been using since ReSharper 2.5 and try the Visual Studio Scheme that Ilya himself designed.

I took the challenge, but found it very difficult to unlearn the 5 years worth of muscle memory. Another hurdle is that I don’t have a working printer at home, so my usual trick of printing out & blu-tacking the Keymap PDF to the bottom of my monitor was not an option!

Next came a moment of inspiration – wouldn’t it be great if you could have the information from keymap scheme available within Visual Studio. And then Keymaps for ReSharper was born.

Keymaps for ReSharper is a ReSharper plugin that creates a dockable tool window which contains listings of all the keyboard shortcuts for both the Visual Studio & IntelliJ/Idea schemes. It automatically detects which scheme you have selected. You can filter the shortcuts displayed via a combobox:

I’ve already received a few feature requests – so I also put in an auto-update feature – so you’ll be notified automatically when a new release is available. If you have any suggestions or comments – ping me on twitter @HowardvRooijen

At the same time as creating http://Keymaps.forReSharper.org – I also decided to give StyleCop for ReSharper some attention and also created http://StyleCop.forReSharper.org in the future there will be some new additions to the *.for.ReSharper family – so keep an eye on this blog for announcements!

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Published:: January 27, 2010 / 3:10 pm

Category:: Keymaps for ReSharper, StyleCop for ReSharper

Tags:: Keymaps for ReSharper, ReSharper, ReSharper Plugins, StyleCop for ReSharper, Tools, Visual Studio

Geoffrey Braaf 4.13.10 / 11am

Looks very handy. I wanted to give this a try in VS2008 but i can’t find a way to trigger the docking window. Is this VS2010 only, taking advantage of the new plugin architecture? I’ve used ReSharper for 2 years now and am pretty comfi with the keyboard shortcuts (although it’s not that easy on a mac keyboard) so i’d like a helper …

Howard 4.13.10 / 12pm

Hi Geoffrey – It should work on R#5 VS2008 – but I have a ticket open with JetBrains about problems with the docking window in ReSharper 4.5

Once I get StyleCop for ReSharper 5 out the door I want to come back to keymaps and add a few more features & bring it up to date.

Regards,

Howard

Geoffrey Braaf 4.13.10 / 1pm

Ok, so for now i’ll just wait? Could you perhaps tell me how to trigger the docking window? I don’t get the described menu item. Thanx for the reply anyway!

Howard 4.13.10 / 5pm

The docking window should be able to invoked via the resharper menu – it should have an entry at the bottom….

George 5.25.10 / 3pm

Hi,

I installed the plugin but is not working. There is no ‘Show Keymap’ item in the resharper menu. I am using VS2008, R#5, Windows 7.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Esben Rasmussen 5.31.10 / 11am

hi,
I have just installed the beta version of Keymap For Resharper on VS 2010 w. Resharper 5.
It works like a charm.

I have been thinking about creating something like it my self lately, so i would like to contribute with my idea. Or if you are not interested, could you please help me out retriving the shortcuts via Resharpers OpenAPI or hov ever you retrieve them.

My idea is just like yours only with the addition that it is interactive. So if i hold CTRL down, only a list of shortcuts either starting with CTRL or in combinations with CTRL, is shown.
(This could be a setting.)

Please respond to me if you like my idea or maybe will helt me getting started. Is the Keymap For Resharper sourcecode free for download somewhere (CodeProject)?

Howard 5.31.10 / 3pm

Hello,

I’m already working on the next version & it has a similar feature – actually it’s totally context based – so depending where you are – it will list the commands that are available. The only problem is that there are several performance bottlenecks to overcome.

Howard

Esben Rasmussen 5.31.10 / 7pm

That sounds really cool. I cant wait to see it in action.
And thanks for a quick response.

Regards, Esben

Jon Benson 6.10.10 / 5am

A link to this blog post on the website might be handy. I had to Google to find this.

I’ve just been debugging slow startup issues in Visual Studio to the point of breaking out Process Monitor.

I noticed this was querying the network (the auto update feature) and adding about 4 seconds to the startup time!

So I’m not sure what you’re doing in your code but I’ve disabled it again for now. OK 4 seconds may not seem like a big deal but every addon/extension/plugin adds up. Before I started cleaning offenders (CopyAsHtml, this, and my MRU list) my startup time was insane (well over 30 seconds).

It’s now back to about 8 seconds.

Here is hoping you can throw a fix in for this because I already came across two shortcuts I hadn’t previously paid attention to.

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