Accelerate Your Coding in Visual Studio with ReSharper

ReSharper supercharges Visual Studio with numerous productivity-enhancing features. Here are some essential ReSharper tricks to speed up your coding:

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1. Navigate Instantly with ‘Go to Everything’

• Press Ctrl + T to search for any symbol, file, or type within your solution.
• Jump quickly to files, classes, or methods without manually navigating the Solution Explorer.

2. Code Generation for Boilerplate Code

• Press Alt + Insert (or Cmd + N on Mac) to open the code generation menu.
• Generate constructors, properties, ToString(), Equals() methods, and more with a few keystrokes.
• ReSharper fills in default implementations, reducing repetitive coding tasks.

3. Quick Fixes and Suggestions

• Whenever you see a lightbulb icon, press Alt + Enter to view and apply a suggested fix.
• ReSharper analyzes your code in real time, suggesting optimizations, code cleanup, and simplifications.

4. Refactor Effortlessly with ‘Refactor This’

• Highlight a code section and press Ctrl + Shift + R to open the refactoring options.
• Use this for renaming, extracting methods, moving code, or changing method signatures without disrupting other parts of your code.

5. Intelligent Code Cleanup

• Press Ctrl + E, C to run code cleanup, or set it up to run on save.
• ReSharper can format code, remove redundancies, simplify expressions, and apply custom rules.
• This helps maintain clean and consistent code across the project.

6. Auto-Complete Like a Pro with ‘Smart Completion’

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Space for ReSharper’s smart completion, which recommends symbols relevant to the current context.
• This is particularly useful for complex nested expressions or scenarios where Visual Studio’s IntelliSense falls short.

7. Find Usages for Efficient Debugging

• Press Shift + F12 to find all instances where a symbol is used across the solution.
• ReSharper’s usage search is faster and more thorough than the native Visual Studio search, showing references in comments, strings, and related symbols.

8. Analyze Dependencies and Code Coverage

• Use ReSharper’s Inspect This feature (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + A) to view code dependencies, inheritance trees, and code coverage.
• Helps visualize code structure and identify areas of high dependency for better design and testing.

9. Inline Variable and Parameter Hints

• ReSharper shows inline hints for parameter names and variable types, making your code easier to read and understand without extra documentation.
• Customize hint styles in settings to focus only on specific hints if desired.

10. Debugging with ‘Run to Cursor’

• Right-click on a line of code and select Run to Cursor or press Ctrl + F10.
• Helps speed up debugging by letting you skip breakpoints and execute code up to the desired line.

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Using these ReSharper tricks will streamline your coding in Visual Studio and allow you to code with precision and speed. Give them a try and see how much time you save!