{"id":646115,"date":"2025-10-06T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/?post_type=dotnet&p=646115"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:35:44","slug":"9-resharper-features-every-dotnet-developer-should-know","status":"publish","type":"dotnet","link":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/zh-hans\/dotnet\/2025\/10\/06\/9-resharper-features-every-dotnet-developer-should-know","title":{"rendered":"9 ReSharper Features Every .NET Developer Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around 15 years ago, I got my first assistant job at a university department. Frankly, I only used ReSharper for its solution-wide analysis<\/a>, which would alert me whenever I broke the spaghetti code I got served. I did not know about all the refactorings yet. It was only at my second job that my awesome team lead (Fabian ?) taught me about all the niceties ReSharper had to offer. Eventually, we even extended it with custom live template macros<\/a>. What a memorable time. ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this day, I consider ReSharper an indispensable Visual Studio extension that helps developers be more productive. Let me take you on a journey through my top nine ReSharper features!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Initial Letter Search<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Navigation in ReSharper is not just about a single shortcut and wildcard text search on different syntax elements. The initial letter search<\/a> helps you to avoid typing out long parts<\/strong> of a searched element by using camel-humps; typing a .<\/code> gives you a quick look at the type’s members. All results are shown in a clean, highlighted, and compact<\/strong> way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goto Everything with Initial Letter Search<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It even works a bit fuzzy, for example, TupleNames<\/code> is shown when you search for NT<\/code> (not TN<\/code>). This allows you to find what you’re looking for, even if your input isn’t exact, whether it’s a typo or a fuzzy memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Contextual Navigation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Besides regular search-term-based navigation, ReSharper also provides a growing number of contextual navigation actions<\/b>. After you’ve placed the caret on an element, you can invoke Navigate To<\/em><\/a> and explore more specific items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Navigate To Context Menu<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the most recent additions is Related Tests\/Subject<\/em><\/a>, but you can also find old and familiar friends, like Consuming\/Exposing APIs<\/em>, Extension Methods, Show Usages<\/em>, or Decompiled Sources<\/em>. Note that all actions have the assigned shortcut shown next to them for your skill progression!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Recent Locations and Changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Statistically, a large part of our work concerns reading and navigating code<\/b>. Only after we understand the surrounding bits can we confidently implement new features. Switching between reading and writing becomes essential, and ReSharper makes it effortless and targeted with the following actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n