Thank you JetBrains!

I just wanted to say thank you for Rider.

My team has been having Visual Studio performance problems for YEARS. We haven't ever been able to determine why. We've been through all the bells and whistles with nothing to show for it. We uninstalled, re-installed, followed advice on performance improvements through the settings (yes, we know about turning off VCS, among a ton of other 'tweaks' we've exhausted; we've been through the full gamut). Deleting *.suo often. Turned off all extensions, including Resharper. We used procmon to try to find interfering software. We went so far as monitoring the network / Wireshark packets (and nothing). We setup VS on an isolated machine with zero other software from our office, and still had problems. I could go on. No solution and it's been going on for almost 8 years. We have super powerful machines as well (top of the line, each machine costs about $6K), so we all agree it is not hardware related.

Our performance problems were so bad: often just typing, we'd get 1-2 minute freeze-ups every 5-10 minutes. You can imagine how frustrated our team has been. Particularly when dealing with emergencies!

We decided to try out Rider.

Low and behold, we've been using it for over a month now and NO FREEZING. None WHATSOEVER! We are using the exact same solution file, and project files, we use in VS.

Of course, there are some problems since it is still early in development, but the main thing is we can work QUICKLY! It compiles, debugs and can run our unit tests. That is pretty much all we need for daily development.

There are some projects it does not support (i.e. SQL CLR functions), and a few other nuances, but we can just go back to VS to handle things like that (on an as-needed basis).

Our company just bought the entire team licenses.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!