I’m a big fan of ReSharper and lately I’ve been installing the
nightly builds which has resulted in a little pain with some dodgy builds but
overall I’m still allot more productive. Yesterday I noticed that Visual Studio
2008 SP1 Beta had been released and as I’d no other VS beta software installed
(there are issues with it if you do) I went ahead and tried it out. The
installer is very small and downloads the required files before continuing the
install. I’m not sure how long it took as I went off to play Grand Theft Auto 4
on the PS3 but about 1 hour later I returned to the laptop to discover that the
install had failed. I opened up VS and checked the about dialogue – no mention
of SP1 so I left it. This morning when I opened up VS I noticed that ReSharper
no longer worked. I downloaded the latest nightly build and installed but still
ReSharper didn’t load within VS. Checking the Installed Programs I noticed that
.Net 3.5 SP1 was listed (I assume the VS SP1 installer installed this but didn’t
uninstall after it failed) and once this was uninstalled ReSharper came back to
life. Pity as I was looking forward to checking out some of the bug fixes and
performance improvements with WCF which SP1 claims to add. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit but haven't seen any other reports of issues.
Update: 19 May 2008
seems that my install may have failed due to issues with certain KB's see http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/05/15/remove-kb945140-before-installing-visual-studio-2008-sp1-beta.aspx - don't think I'm going to try it again though untill I know R# will work. Some people do seem to have it working (with issues) though http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=275245&tstart=0