What refactoring tools do you use for .NET?

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What refactoring tools do you use for .NET?

Do you use any of the refactoring tools like DevExpress' Refactor Pro? Which tool do you use and why?

I'm looking for recommendations. Ideally I'd like open source tool that works with VB and C# inside VS2005 and VS2008. If I had to narrow down my list of ideals, I would purchase something for VS2008. Not sure on the language choice, probably VB for now.

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I can't recommend ReSharper highly enough. It's not free or open source though. Starts from $US199 for the personal edition that works with both C# and VB.NET

Ray 2009-05-13 22:14:15

agree++ on Resharper. It makes nearly impossible refactorings almost trivial and implements a good sense of how code can be improved.

Jekke 2009-05-13 22:17:45

Unfortunately, ReSharper doesn't like big solutions, Visual Studio bogs down into an unusable state when I open my class library, even with solution-wide analysis turned off. DevExpress tools doesn't have that problem though.

Lasse V. Karlsen 2009-05-13 22:18:53

I've found that if you have enough memory, ReSharper works reasonably well with large solutions. Still, I tend to create a "meta-solution" when I'm refactoring public members used in multiple solutions. Other than that, I do try to keep solutions down to 1 dozen projects or so.

John Saunders 2009-05-13 22:27:36

Resharper can be slow with big solutions. The latest release 4.5 is much faster and uses less memory. Even running slowly, I know I can get more done in less time with Resharper.

ScottS 2009-05-13 22:30:51

+1 my employer wouldn't purchase me a copy so I purchased my own and I would recommend anyone to do the same!

Jon Erickson 2009-05-13 22:44:12

The performance of ReSharper 4.5 is improved significantly over previous versions...worth upgrading if you're having slowdown issues.

Richard Ev 2009-05-13 22:49:01

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CodeRush Xpress for VS2008 is free

There is also a series of webcasted tutorials available

MedicineMan 2009-05-13 22:17:13

I recommend CodeRush over ReSharper on my own experience. Resharper made VS2008 really unusable to the point that I had to uninstall it. There is a big issue with a large solution, which is hard for me to troubleshoot.

CodeToGlory 2009-05-13 23:13:02

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For an alternative to ReSharper, try DevExpress Refactor! Pro.

Lasse V. Karlsen 2009-05-13 22:17:54

Refactor Pro!, along with CodeRush (Refactor! comes with it IIRC), are simply awesome and the visual eye candy is sweet. I wouldn't mind trying ReSharper but haven't gotten around to it. I'm probably a little biased; I attended Mark Miller's session at a codecamp and watching him work his magic got me hooked.

Ahmad Mageed 2009-05-13 22:55:56

I have licenses for both Refactor! Pro and ReSharper, and I actually like ReSharper more, but I find it a bit unstable when I work on big solutions, like my class library, but I swapped back to ReSharper now and it actually seems to run stable for now, so perhaps it conflicted with another addin I have had installed, not that I know what that would be. Personally I don't install CodeRush though, I find all the eye-candy it brings a bit too much.

Lasse V. Karlsen 2009-05-13 23:00:00

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Big tick for Resharper, not only a productivity booster with on-the-fly error checking, but also on-the-fly suggestions on cleaner/better ways of doing things, including new naming convention suggestions in latest version. A tool that teaches.

Seba Illingworth 2009-05-13 22:47:34

+1 for "a tool that teaches", especially for some of the C# syntax changes in .NET 3.5

Richard Ev 2009-05-13 22:50:03

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