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Good news! Microsoft has announced a new version of Visual Studio 2022. And of course, we will make sure that ReSharper is available for it to help you write better code. Update (December 8, 2021): ReSharper 2021.3, with support for Visual Studio 2022, is now available for download. Download ReSh…

Object-oriented programming is a popular programming paradigm. Many developers create object models for use in object-oriented systems. When those models are built, they often need to undergo some refactoring so that they are efficient, readable, and maintainable. ReSharper is there to help you make…

dotCover 2020.3 updates and improvements

Time to get excited: dotCover 2020.3 is here! Get ready for quality-of-life improvements such as coverage filtering by target framework, different build modes for continuous testing, updates to provide better coverage highlighting, command-line tooling enhancements, and more! Let's have a look. (mo…

We discussed the motivations and our push toward running Rider on .NET Core in our previous post. As part of that effort, we are looking into converting projects in the ReSharper and Rider solution to using the new, simpler, SDK-based projects introduced with .NET Core. In this post, we will see …

Last time we talked about ReSharper out of process, we took a (very long!) look at the magnitude of the task. It’s a massively complex job, re-architecturing an application with 14 years worth of assumptions of COM based APIs into an asynchronous cross process model. That post details the complexit…

In the latest ReSharper 2019.3 Early Access Preview (EAP), we have added a new Localization Manager to assist you in localizing applications. It lets you view and edit localizable resources in a single grid, helping you add/edit/rename localizable strings and spot missing localized values. More t…

Late last month, .NET Framework 4.8 was released. It comes with several enhancements to support Per-Monitor V2 DPI Awareness (PMv2) and Mixed-Mode DPI hosting in both Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). PMv2 makes it possible for controls to change their DPI dynamically. For …

When editing code in the latest builds of ReSharper 2018.3 EAP and Rider 2018.3 EAP, the inline parameter hints for C# and VB.NET are something you will notice immediately. Let's see how this new feature makes code more readable, and how we can configure it. What are inline parameter hints? When …

In the latest versions of both ReSharper and Rider, we've made several improvements related to navigation and search. Let's have a look! Local functions in File Structure and Go to containing declaration It's been a while since local functions were introduced in C# 7.0. As many developers are maki…

The latest versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with support for C# 7.3. In this series, we are looking at these new language features in C# 7.3. Today we will look at the fixed pattern and simplified access to fixed size buffer elements. This post is part of a series: Declarati…

The Early Access Preview (EAP) versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with support for C# 7.3. In this series, we are looking at these new language features in C# 7.3. Today, we let's check out ref local re-assignment. This post is part of a series: Declaration expressions in init…

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ReSharper Tips & Tricks with Matt Ellis – Recording Available

ReSharper and Visual Studio 2022 64-bit

Refactor object-oriented code with ReSharper

dotCover 2020.3 Improvements And Updates

A Story About .csproj, Large Solutions and Memory Usage

Update on running ReSharper out of process

Localization Becomes easier with the Localization Manager in ReSharper 2019.3

Blank tool windows – ReSharper, Visual Studio 2019, .NET Framework 4.8 and Per-Monitor DPI Awareness

Inline parameter name hints for C# and VB.NET in ReSharper and Rider

ReSharper 2018.2 – Navigation updates

Fixed pattern – C# 7.3 in Rider and ReSharper

Ref local re-assignment – C# 7.3 in Rider and ReSharper