ReSharper: .NET Code Analysis and Refactoring Extension
A Visual Studio extension providing code analysis and refactoring tools for improved productivity, including intelligent code completion, error highlighting, and quick fixes.
What is ReSharper?
ReSharper is a popular productivity extension for Visual Studio that aims to improve the .NET development experience. It was originally developed by JetBrains and provides a wide range of code analysis, refactoring, and code generation tools for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, and other .NET languages.
Some of ReSharper's key features include:
- Intelligent code completion and analysis - ReSharper analyzes your code and provides contextual completion suggestions as you type. It also highlights syntax issues, missing references, redundant code, and other problems.
- Automated refactorings - ReSharper allows you to safely restructure, rename, move, and modify code bases through its catalog of over 1500+ automated refactorings.
- Unit testing tools - ReSharper integrates with unit testing frameworks like MSTest, NUnit, and xUnit to provide features like test runner, code coverage analysis, test generation assistance, and more.
- Navigation and search - You can jump to any file, type, or member with ReSharper's enhanced navigation. It also offers advanced structural search and replace across entire solutions.
- Third party integration - ReSharper offers deep integration with tools like StyleCop, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL Server and Markdown through a variety of extensions.
With its vast array of code inspection, analysis, and editing capabilities aimed specifically at .NET developers, ReSharper has established itself as an essential Visual Studio extension for professional .NET developers in order to accelerate development workflows.