Resharper 4.5 - sharing usersetting.xml - help deaying roll-out across team

Hello Jessica,

Settings are written on VS close. Close Visual Studio, then deploy usersettings.xml
file to everyone (don't have any VS with ReSharper open), start VS.

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"


JP>
JP>
JP> Just purchased 4.5 for all our developers and invested lots of time
JP> getting things configured.  Love the product thus far, but
JP> dissapointed that sharing the .resharper config file only gives us a
JP> common Code Style Settings.  We need to share the Severity Setting,
JP> Context Actions and Custom Cleanup Profiles as well.
JP>
JP> So we have a common usersetting.xml file, in which these things
JP> appear to be stored.
JP>
JP> However, changes made via the Resharper->Options dialog do not
JP> appear to be written to this file (as an example, abbreviations).
JP> However, when I look in the dialog box they are there.
JP>
JP> How can we share a common usersetting.xml file?
JP> When does this file get written out to?
JP> Please help - we want to roll out Resharper across the team  but
JP> need to understand this before doing so.
JP>
JP> Thanks
JP> Jessica
JP> ---
JP> Original message URL:
JP> http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5253153#5253153

Great, first it is good to  know we can share configuration this way.  We would ideally like this file to be under source control. We use TFS, so when we do a "get" Visual Studio is opened, and this seems to be causing problems, specifically when we get the "new" usersetting.xml they are not "used" by Resharper, which is already running and using the OLD settings.

Any idea or clever workaround for this?

Thank you
Jessica

We have been using Resharper Settings Manager http://rsm.codeplex.com/ to handle the sharing of settings between all of our developers. It allows you to save all the settings to a file that we put into version control. It also allows you to load that file while VS is running. It also allows for multiple seetings file. We a file that is slightly different for when we write library code versus application code.

-eric

Hi Eric, thanks I just downloaded from Codeplex and will check it out.

If we very carefully follow the below steps, checking the usersettings.xml file in and sharing it across developers seems to work.  It also shares it across ALL solutions which is nice.

To GET the latest version of the file from TFS

1.       Delete your usersettings.xml

2.       Open Visual  Studio

3.       Add the following path pair to your  Workspace to get the file to your documents & settings\username\AppData\resharper\etc..

4.     Get the latest version  from TFS

5.       Close Visual  Studio

a.       You will be told that this file has  been changed externally and asked if you want to ignore these changes- press  NO.  You want to keep external changes  

6.       Re-open VS which will re-start  Resharper with the new configuration file  settings

To make a change to the resharper  configuration

1.       Check out the usersettings.xml file  (MUST DO THIS)

2.       Make your change i.e. add an  abbreviation, change severity setting, etc.

3.       Close Visual Studio to force the  changes to be written to the file

4.       Open Visual Studio and do a compare  to confirm changes are in place

5.       Check in usersettings.xml – this  will send a message to the team letting them know they need to get the new  file

Again, because we are getting a new  version of a file that is actually loaded in memory, it is necessary to close  Visual Studio and execute these steps in the right order.  You can’t just assume  getting the lates will do the trick.

Hope someone finds this helpful - perhaps the plugin will make this extra work unnecessary

Jess

Eric, I downloaded and installed, but my Load Settings File menu item is grey out:-(  I've posted comment at Codeplex and reviewed the documentation but figured I would ask in case this rang a bell for you. Thanks, Jess

I think that you'll find the plugin easier.

To Get Latest version of the settings file:
1. Set the workspace path if not already done.
2. Do a Get Latest.
3. From the VS menu Resharper->LoadSettings. Select the settings file.

To update the settings file:
1. Check out the file.
2. Make your changes.
3. From VS menu Resharper->Options->settings manager. Select the settings file (if using more than 1). Press update.
4. Check in the file.

No restarts of visual studio needed.

We only found this about 3 weeks ago, but haven't had any issues with it yet.

-eric

Hello Jessica,

This is something we are going to address in ReSharper for version 6, current
version 5 is locked down already and we are only making bug fixes and some
UI things.

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"


IR> Great, first it is good to  know we can share configuration this
IR> way.  We would ideally like this file to be under source control. We
IR> use TFS, so when we do a "get" Visual Studio is opened, and this
IR> seems to be causing problems, specifically when we get the "new"
IR> usersetting.xml they are not "used" by Resharper, which is already
IR> running and using the OLD settings.
IR>
IR> Any idea or clever workaround for this?
IR>
IR> Thank you
IR> Jessica
IR> ---
IR> Original message URL:
IR> http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5253157#5253157

Jessica,
rsm docs are here: http://rsm.codeplex.com/documentation
This app generates it's own settings file so it does not use the usersettings.xml directly.

On a machine that has the correct settings:
Go to Resharper->Options
There should be a new option towards the bottom called something Settings manager. Once selected the right side will allow you to enter a directory where you want to store the files. Set that. Then hit the Add button, This creates a new file that rsm can use and that you can put in tfs. It will then be in the directory you specified earlier. Now close the options. Resharper->Load settings should now be available as you have a file in the directory you specified.

To have others load the file:
Do a get latest of the rsm file
Go to Resharper->Options settings manager.
Enter the download directory. You should see the settings file appear in the list.
Resharper->Load settings.


Ilya, glad to here that this is on the radar.

--eric