ReSharper vs. Parasoft Development Testing Solutions

ReSharper is the best all-in-one tool for Visual Studio that I have encountered. It contains many features not found in Visual Studio Enterprise, and those features already in Visual Studio provide much better implementations. I would recommend this to all developers, with the only people who will find it a detriment are developers running older, slower machines (due to ReSharper's resource requirements).

Incentivized

• Shortcuts are awesome. Navigation through the code gets really easy.
• I use it every day: go to the last modified position, go to the next error, find usages. All refactoring shortcuts!
• Color identifiers let me identify variables from constants, methods, properties, and types. I use this feature and I can not live without it.
• Move code by scope is handy.
• Adding missing references automatically.

Incentivized

• Sometimes it gives suggestion that are not suitable for code that you wrote

ReSharper is very familiar if you already know Visual Studio. JetBrains does have an excellent IDE (Rider); however, since ReSharper is an extension to Visual Studio, you only need to learn what their tools add, not a whole new way of working. I have found the extension's interface to be straightforward, although perhaps due to the massive range of features, navigating the menus is a little time-consuming until your muscle memory kicks in. Maybe a feature search tool would help make usability a 10 out of 10?

Incentivized

ReSharper does what it does very well because it operates inside the IDE you are already using. It provides advanced features that function far above and beyond what Visual Studio Professional offers and does not require you to learn another IDE like JetBrain's excellent IDE Rider. My only wish is that ReSharper had a Visual Studio Code plugin!

Incentivized

• ReSharper is our go-to tool for file formatting. All of our code process must be formatted correctly, and ReSharper makes that an easy to access keyboard shortcut.

Incentivized