Published: Aug 26, 2020 by Jenno Vink
Since my study (starting 2014) I used to work with a visual studio plugin called ReSharper. For me, Resharper is an excellent tool to level up my productivity. It provides an intuitive interface for refactoring code. In this post I would like to share my favourite shortcuts & resharper functionalities. This list is not in any order of preference.
Changing names [ctrl + r, r]
Often during the development process I know the structure (for-loops, altering data, etc) that globally needs to be programmed. After programming it happens that some variable names aren’t descriptive enough in my opinion, which is a very natural thing to happing in that process. Although visual studio has a similar build-in functionality, it doesn’t provide the following:
In-place refactoring [alt + enter, enter]
Although everyone has his own programming style, there is a need of standardised coding convention to make code more readable (by yourself and others). Thus, when naming a public property name, this is corrected to Name. By this way, when reading Name, there is no doubt about its access modifiers.
Move to <class_name>.cs [alt + enter, enter]
No one likes reinventing the wheel. In fact, a lot of problem I deal with during programming is already programmed by someone else. That’s why I like standard solutions or examples I find on the Internet. But, sometimes the example I find online might not work. Embedding their solution into my own doesn’t always works out OK. Copy-pasting a class under an existing class saves time (and clicks) in comparison to creating a new file and pasting the class into it, as the example class might not work in the solution.
Search everywhere [ctrl + t]
Searching in text? Looking for classes? Methods? Strings? Especially the 'magnifying glass' icon is really handy as this moves all the search results in a separate view, making it more convenient to peek into the results by project.
Insert constructor [Alt + insert]
Writing a constructor one of the first things I learned during my study. Manually creating one, initializing a few of its class' properties can be a lot of keystrokes (even with resharper's extensive code completion). Via this hokey, its really easy to select which properties/fields needs to be initialized right from the constructor. Although visual studio shares the same functionality, resharper has the choice to make parameters optional. A feature that visual studio doesn't have (yet).
