C# and the Compilation Tax

I write this post at the risk of sounding like a complete and utter ReSharper fanboy. However I had a great moment while reading C# and the Compilation Tax when I went "Huh?" at a couple of paragraphs:

What's particularly sad about this is that, in my experience, most C# developers think manually compiling all the time is a natural state of affairs. Well, it isn't. In VB.NET we have this clever little technology we call background compilation. Background compilation saves you the effort of all that meaningless, repetitive, mind-numbing manual compilation. It's very simple: as you type, imagine all that CTRL+SHIFT+B-ing happening automagically in the background for you.

With background compilation, I know immediately when I've made a mistake. I don't have to wait until the next time I manually invoke the compiler. Let's say I was to type in the following C# code:

Of course ReSharper adds this functionality to Visual Studio, but it's been so long since I've used a vanilla copy of Visual Studio and so I'd lost track of which piece of software is responsible for which piece of functionality. It's slightly worrying to become dependant on an addon product, however one of the skills of a good developer is identifying and adopting tools which suit his or her style of work, right?

(I really don't work for JetBrains, I'm just a satisfied customer!)

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