For those of you who don’t know, ReSharper is no longer a Visual Studio add-in. Previously if you needed to disable ReSharper for whatever reason you could do so in the Add-In Manager in Visual Studio. You no longer can. Disabling ReSharper is now termed “Suspending” it. You can suspend ReSharper from the Tools > Options > Resharper options window. Press Suspend. ReSharper will now be suspended.

I know, why would I disable ReSharper? Well, at my current client I’m working on a VB.NET ASP.NET Web Forms application which talks to Microsoft CRM through the CRM WebService and LinqToCrm. The web service proxy that gets generated is over 94,000 lines long. That’s 94,000 lines of VB.NET. When ReSharper starts to analyze that file (as well as the other VB.NET files in the app) all hell breaks loose. The IDE locks up and I can’t do a single thing. Therefore, I had to suspend ReSharper while working in this project.

Here’s the crux … the only VB.NET project is the Website, all other libraries are C# (thankfully) and I want to use ReSharper. Going through the tools menu each time I need to Suspend/Resume Resharper is a royal PITA. Thankfully ReSharper gave us a key command: Resharper_ToggleSuspend to assist in toggling the suspension of ReSharper. This is not mapped to any key combo by default. What I have done is mapped it to CTRL + ALT + F6. Now when I need to turn ReSharper On/Off when I enter/leave the VB.NET project I hit the key combo and I’m back in action (or out of action in regards to turning it off). Super easy.