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I disagree heavily. Stock VS is very fast. However it does slow down significantly when using a plugin like ReSharper.

But for me in the end it is worth it. Show me any text editor or IDE that provides the same number and quality of productivity enhancing features as ReSharper that isn't as slow or slower.

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R# 8.0.0 had a bug where it would crash VS from time-to-time. I ran `devenv /safemode` to load VS without any third party stuff in an attempt to identify the problem and my god, it was fast.

I have a 28 project solution, and with R# the IDE is still plenty fast but every so often I think about just how fast VS was without plugins.

Not worth it for me. I have a very fast system (i7, 32GB, RAID 0 SSD), and ReSharper slows everything down too much to be usable. I'm not sure if it's the projects I work on -- I've used it usually on pretty large ones like Orchard CMS so that might be part of it.

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