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ReSharper is a refactoring

Refactoring

Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....

and productivity extension

Extension (computing)

Software extension, is a file containing programming that serves to extend the capabilities of or data available to a more basic program. It is a kind of list of commands which are directly included in the program. This term often coincides with the plug-in...

by JetBrains

JetBrains

JetBrains is a Czech software development company with offices in Prague, Czech Republic; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Boston, USA and Munich, Germany...

that extends native functionality of Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...

2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010.

ReSharper executes solution-wide static code analysis

Static code analysis

Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...

(error detection on-the-fly, without the need to compile), provides additional features for error correction, code completion, navigation, search, syntax highlighting, formatting, code generation and optimization, carries out 40 automated refactoring

Refactoring

s, and streamlines unit testing using NUnit

NUnit

NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft .NET. It serves the same purpose as JUnit does in the Java world, and is one of many in the xUnit family.- Example :Example of an NUnit test fixture:using NUnit.Framework; [TestFixture]...

and MSTest

MSTest

MSTest is a command line utility from Microsoft that executes unit tests created in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010....

, among other features.

The current version 6.0, was released in 2011. It supports C# 4.0

C Sharp 4.0

C# 4.0 is the latest version of the C# programming language, which was released on April 11, 2010. Microsoft has released the 4.0 runtime and development environment Visual Studio 2010...

, VB10, ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

, ASP.NET MVC, Razor, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, XAML

XAML

Extensible Application Markup Language is a declarative XML-based language created by Microsoft used for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise...

, MSBuild

MSBuild

MSBuild is a Microsoft build platform typically used in conjunction with Visual Studio. MSBuild version 2.0 is part of .NET Framework 2.0 and works together with Visual Studio 2005...

and NAnt

NAnt

NAnt is a free and open source software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to Apache Ant, but targeted at the .NET environment rather than Java...

build scripts.

Features

The following is an incomplete list of ReSharper features and feature groups:

Static code analysis
Static code analysis
Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...

: over 900 on-the-fly code inspections that can be displayed as errors, warnings, suggestions, or hints (including compiler errors
Compilation error
Compilation error refers to a state when a compiler fails to compile a piece of computer program source code, either due to errors from the compiler itself, or syntax errors in the code...

and warnings)
600 quick-fixes - automated corrections to resolve errors and optimize code
Navigation and search: view file structure; search for any code symbol, type or file in solution; search for symbol usages; quick navigation to usage, declaration, implementation, inheritors, base types etc.
Code Completion and Parameter Info that extends Visual Studio's built-in IntelliSense
IntelliSense
IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of autocompletion, best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment...
40 solution-wide code refactoring
Refactoring
Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....

s
Over 200 context actions - "local refactorings"
Code generation: generate code from usage; generate common type members, including properties, constructors, interface implementation etc.
Support for unit testing using NUnit
NUnit
NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft .NET. It serves the same purpose as JUnit does in the Java world, and is one of many in the xUnit family.- Example :Example of an NUnit test fixture:using NUnit.Framework; [TestFixture]...

and MSTest
MSTest
MSTest is a command line utility from Microsoft that executes unit tests created in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010....
Assistance in internationalizing
Internationalization and localization
In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market...

.NET applications
Advanced support for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC including Document Navigation, Refactoring and Related Files Dialogues

Plugins

ReSharper provides an API for developers to create third-party plugins extending core ReSharper functionality, such as:

PowerToys

Resharper 5 has a new set of plugins developed by the community and jetbrains to enhance and extend the functionality of Resharper:

CsUnit PowerToy: Unit Testing
CyclomaticComplexity PowerToy: Calculates Cyclomatic Complexity
ExploreTypeInterface PowerToy: Allows you to explore type interfaces
FindText PowerToy: Powerful add-on for Finding Text
GenerateDispose PowerToy: Generates Dispose patterns
LiveTemplatesMacro PowerToy : Macros for Live Templates
MakeMethodGeneric PowerToy: Makes a method generic
MenuItem PowerToy: Shows how to work with menu items
OptionsPage PowerToy: Shows how to work with options page
ReflectorNavigator PowerToy: Plug-in for Reflector
ZenCoding PowerToy: ZenCoding for HTML

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