Ability to write error-free code
- Instant error checking without precompilation.
- Quick correction of detected errors with the ability to choose from a list of alternative methods of correction (“quick-fixes”).
- Ability to check for errors in individual files and throughout the solution.
- Displays warnings about potential errors and problems, such as excessive type conversion and unused characters.
- Ability to annotate the code to improve the accuracy of the analysis.
- Convenient tools for highlighting errors and navigating between errors, warnings, suggestions, and tips.
Improve developer productivity
- Character auto-completion, intelligent auto-completion, and type import by auto-completion.
- Customizable highlighting of fields, local variables, and types.
- Over 130 “contextual actions” for local transformations.
- Automatic substitution of parentheses and other delimiters.
- Display documentation for types, class members, and method parameters in pop-up windows.
- Automatically insert missing elements using directives.
Comprehensive code cleanup
- Format according to the specified style settings.
- Eliminate redundant constructs in your code.
- Migrating to C# 3.0 Language Constructs.
- Streamline namespace import directives.
- Update and unify file headers.
- The ability to perform all of the above functions simultaneously.
Multiple refactorings
- 34 intelligent automated refactoring.
- The “Refactor this” function allows you to find out which refactorings are applicable in a particular code fragment.
- Improved search and navigation tools
- Quickly jump to a type, file, class member, and any character in the solution by name.
- Move up and down the hierarchy of methods and types.
- View and organize the structure of the current file.
- View stack trace data and quickly navigate to the exception object.
- Unit Testing
- User-friendly interface for managing, running, and debugging NUnit tests.
- Support for other test environments through plug-ins.
- Profile unit tests using dotTrace Profiler.
- Enhanced language and technology support
- C# 3.0.
- Visual Basic 8.
- XML.
- XAML.
- Manage unit tests (NUnit, other environments).
- Edit ASP.NET files.
- Edit MSBuild and NAnt scripts.
- Open API to extend the functionality of ReSharper.
- Edit ASP.NET files
- Edit and refactor properties of controls, events, data sources, and placeholders in ASP.NET.
- Most C# code editing features are available in ASP.NET files, including highlighting errors, navigation, contextual actions, and so on.
Editing NAnt and MSBuild Scripts
- Code completion, color highlighting of errors and quick fixes, rename refactoring, quick transition to ads, etc.
- Create script files that are automatically recognized when you open them.