ReSharper Essentials - Softcover

Gasior, Lukasz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849698708 ISBN 13: 9781849698702

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Make your Microsoft Visual Studio work smarter with ReSharper

About This Book

• Discover the most useful features of ReSharper and how to implement them effectively
• Find out what is wrong with your code and use quick fixes to eliminate errors and code smells
• A practical guide to ReSharper 8.1 focused on teaching you the most intuitive shortcuts

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who is working with Visual Studio and are looking to make your work more efficient, this book is for you. It is most useful for new ReSharper users but those who are currently using it will also find many useful tips and references updated to the latest version (8.1). Prior knowledge of Visual Studio is a must.

What You Will Learn

• Employ ReSharper in web projects with support for ASP.NET (MVC), HTML/CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Write your own ReSharper plugin
• Utilize and configure templates
• Find files, code references, and navigate through codes quicker
• Eliminate errors and code smells
• Generate your code– not write it
• Improve the quality of your code by using code analysis
• Run Unit Tests and manage test sessions
• Find your project's dependencies
• Use ReSharper analysis beyond Visual Studio

In Detail

ReSharper is one of the best tools that extends Microsoft Visual Studio. It adds a lot of features which increases a developer's productivity. It started with providing support for C# and VB.NET projects, but the current version supports developers in almost any type of applications which you can create with Visual Studio.

Written with very clear walkthroughs and step-by-step instructions, this book contains many cases that practically show you how to write better code, refactor it and quickly find problems in your code.

This book explains how to start using ReSharper and how you can configure it to suit your needs. In the beginning it focuses on introducing the most commonly used features that help you in writing code and find things in smarter, quicker ways. You will learn about code analysis which will help you to eliminate errors and code smells, and how ReSharper supports web development by providing support for writing ASP.NET (MVC) applications and JavaScript/TypeScript or HTML/CSS code.

This book introduces tools that facilitate your work with unit tests and teach you how to write a simple ReSharper plugin. The last chapters present the new features introduced in ReSharper 8, which provide support for architects and allow you to use ReSharper analysis besides Visual Studio and also support for TypeScript (8.1). Finally, it quickly reviews the best ReSharper plugins recommended by the author.

This book will show you how to use ReSharper features to be a better developer, in a practical manner.

About this title

About the Author

Lukasz Gasior

Lukasz Gasior is a programming enthusiast with several years of experience. A big fan of ReSharper and jQuery, he is primarily involved in projects related to web applications (ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC). He enjoys trying his hand at different technologies, such as creating Android applications, just for the fun of it. He strongly believes that JavaScript can be mastered just like any other language. If you would like to get in touch, he tweets at @lukaszgasior and blogs at http://gasior.net.pl and http://codingtv.pl (both blogs are in Polish).

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849698708
• ISBN 13: 9781849698702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124