Chapter 1. Power Programming with ReSharper: Optimize .NET Development with the ReSharper Add-In to Visual Studio 2008

The ReSharper add-in for Visual Studio is one of the more innovative tools to arrive on the market for .NET developers. ReSharper boosts your productivity by providing tools for code analysis, symbol navigation, code completion, unit testing, and code refactoring. ReSharper supports Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, XML, and XAML. ReSharper helps you solve problems instantly by flagging coding errors without compiling the code first. ReSharper extends Visual Studio's code completion capabilities by highlighting fields as well as duplicating blocks of code. With ReSharper, you can also optimize the time-consuming tasks of writing loops, constructors, and read or write properties by defining code templates that can be reused. This Wrox Blox examines some of the features of ReSharper such as code analysis, code completion, code templates, code generation, advanced navigation, and refactoring, and their use in a C# Windows Forms project. This Wrox Blox assumes that you are familiar with the C# programming language as well as the Visual Studio development environment.