Great points. Resharper already does some of this. 1. ReSharper has a plugin to analyze cyclomatic complexity. http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharp

Great points. Resharper already does some of this. 1. ReSharper has a plugin to analyze cyclomatic complexity. http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/Cyclomatic+Complexity http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/Cyclomatic... 2. ReSharper has Call Tracking and Value Tracking. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.html#Call_Tracking http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.ht... 3. Once again, if you are not shipping code to outside customers, you can use Solution Wide Analsys to find out unused code. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.html#Solution-Wide_Analysis http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.ht... 4. PostSharp helps you with your Aspect oriented programming. http://www.sharpcrafters.com/postsharp/features http://www.sharpcrafters.com/postsharp/features ReSharper is already very powerful, imagine if they don't have to write their own lexer and parser and can use the lexer/parser used by the C# compiler. I think they can build more useful features and users are isolated from bugs in their lexing/parsing. I think this is an amazing development and I can't wait for this to go live so that there will be many products like Resharper helping us analyze and improve our code. Relevant SO thread: What would you do with Compiler as a Service. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4222524/what-would-you-do-with-compiler-as-a-service http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4222524/what-would-you-do...