Does resharper have problems with asp.net mvc?

Question

I'm using the latest release of resharper. Just downloaded and installed last week so I'm new to using it. The problem I'm having is that in my ASP.NET MVC application all of my controllers say they are never used and all the methods within the controller say they are never used.

Is there a way to suppress the messages or for resharper to understand they are used?

Answer 1

You can turn on/off the various warnings and hints that Resharper gives you.

HOWEVER, if you write unit tests then they WILL be used and Resharper will be happy.

update

You could consider telling Resharper to ignore the unused members of your controller by doing this at the top and bottom of your controller class...

public class MyController: Controller
{
    // ReSharper disable UnusedMember.Global

    ...        

    // ReSharper restore UnusedMember.Global
}

... or, at least put these comments around the public methods on your controller (I use StyleCop and so all the public methods will be grouped together anyway. This is reasonably unobtrusive, and would get rid of this warning from Resharper.

Answer 2

There's no way I know of that will force Resharper to "know" that a method is used (I've never experienced this problem with Resharper).

If you don't want to globally turn on/off various inspection options, you can choose to suppress specific inspection messages with a comment. Like so...

// ReSharper disable UnusedPrivateMember
private void NotUsed ()
{
    // ... Code ...
}
// ReSharper restore UnusedPrivateMember

Answer 3

Yep, current ReSharper version doesn't place references on MVC controllers (although, next one will).

In meantime you can mark controller class and action methods with ImplicitUse attribute. You can find it in JetBrains.Annotations assembly. If you don't want external dependency, you can add necessary annotations attributes to your project, you will find them in ReSharper->Options->Code Inspection->Code Annotation->Copy default implementation.