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I'm curious to know what R# does for you (honest question). At work I use Visual Studio but I never felt the need for an addon, my needs are met.

scarface74 9y ago
I know this might come across as an infomercial. I'm really just a fanboy of JetBrains. To give even more context, I'm also a one handed typist (not by choice). So the various R# shortcuts really help me code faster. Some of my most used patterns 1. Create a class 2. Type ctor + tab - create a constructor (VS) 3. Type a parameter type and a variable (R# auto completes with a reasonable name) 4. Type Alt+Enter+Enter. R# creates a private class field and assigns the parameter to the private field ---- I need to create an equality operator for a class. This is the standard c# pattern: https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/ms173147(v=vs.80).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/ms173147(v=vs.80).a... It's tedious. R# does this with one shortcut -> Generate Code -> generate equality comparer and then it gives you a choice of which properties should be part of the equality comparison --- You need to quickly create an override of .ToString() maybe you just want something friendly during debugging. Say you have 10 properties. Again, that's Generate Code -> create formatting member. ---- Say your class has gotten to big and you see some methods that should be their own class. Refactor -> Extract class. And it will automatically create a reference to the extracted class ---- Say you have a base class and your inherited class has some members that should be in the base class or the interface. Refactor-> Move members up ---- You have a method that has too many members and you want to create an object that encapsulates your parameter list into an object. R# can do that for you and change all of your usages throughout your code base to use your new class. --- What if you decide to "prefer aggregation over inheritance" or you have a sealed class that can be inherited and you want to make it inheritable by doing a wrapper class. Generate Code -> Create delegating members. ---- Say you wrote a foreach loop and realized you needed a for loop: Alt-enter convert foreach to for --- Say you wrote some Linq code that would be clearer imperative -> there is a shortcut for that too. --- What if you really hate Microsoft's test runner and prefer Nunit -R# has got you covered. ---- This list doesn't include all of the other random niceties: -Fixing namespacing throughout your project with one click -suggesting coding standards -Ctrl-T for universal search -convert code to Linq expression -safe parameter removal -navigation shortcuts -warns of unused classes and is smart enough to know if you're using a class via convention based Dependency Injection (i.e. automatically use Foo when a constructor asks for IFoo) -Asp.net MVC has a lot of "stringly typed" conventions for specifying controllers and actions that will only give you runtime errors not compiled time errors R# is smart enough to know when you are using an invalid Controller/Action combination. -extract method, extract class, extract variable and the inline reverse of all of the above.

scarface74 9y ago

I know this might come across as an infomercial. I'm really just a fanboy of JetBrains. To give even more context, I'm also a one handed typist (not by choice). So the various R# shortcuts really help me code faster. Some of my most used patterns 1. Create a class 2. Type ctor + tab - create a constructor (VS) 3. Type a parameter type and a variable (R# auto completes with a reasonable name) 4. Type Alt+Enter+Enter. R# creates a private class field and assigns the parameter to the private field ---- I need to create an equality operator for a class. This is the standard c# pattern: https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/ms173147(v=vs.80).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/ms173147(v=vs.80).a... It's tedious. R# does this with one shortcut -> Generate Code -> generate equality comparer and then it gives you a choice of which properties should be part of the equality comparison --- You need to quickly create an override of .ToString() maybe you just want something friendly during debugging. Say you have 10 properties. Again, that's Generate Code -> create formatting member. ---- Say your class has gotten to big and you see some methods that should be their own class. Refactor -> Extract class. And it will automatically create a reference to the extracted class ---- Say you have a base class and your inherited class has some members that should be in the base class or the interface. Refactor-> Move members up ---- You have a method that has too many members and you want to create an object that encapsulates your parameter list into an object. R# can do that for you and change all of your usages throughout your code base to use your new class. --- What if you decide to "prefer aggregation over inheritance" or you have a sealed class that can be inherited and you want to make it inheritable by doing a wrapper class. Generate Code -> Create delegating members. ---- Say you wrote a foreach loop and realized you needed a for loop: Alt-enter convert foreach to for --- Say you wrote some Linq code that would be clearer imperative -> there is a shortcut for that too. --- What if you really hate Microsoft's test runner and prefer Nunit -R# has got you covered. ---- This list doesn't include all of the other random niceties: -Fixing namespacing throughout your project with one click -suggesting coding standards -Ctrl-T for universal search -convert code to Linq expression -safe parameter removal -navigation shortcuts -warns of unused classes and is smart enough to know if you're using a class via convention based Dependency Injection (i.e. automatically use Foo when a constructor asks for IFoo) -Asp.net MVC has a lot of "stringly typed" conventions for specifying controllers and actions that will only give you runtime errors not compiled time errors R# is smart enough to know when you are using an invalid Controller/Action combination. -extract method, extract class, extract variable and the inline reverse of all of the above.