ReSharper Essentials: Make your Microsoft Visual Studio work smarter with ReSharper.

Lukasz Gasior

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4.3 (9 Ratings)

eBook Feb 2014 124 pages Edition

Lukasz Gasior

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Arkadiusz Benedykt Mar 06, 2014

It's a short, well prepared book. If you've bought a ReSharper for the first time it's a must have. Book covers basics of usage, some more advanced topics, shows some basics of building extensions and what is important, shows the architecture graph.More advanced users won't find it to much interesting but I don't think that they're the target group for this position.One thing I was missing are Idea Intelij shortcuts - only Visual Studio ones are shown.

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Robert Bernstein Apr 28, 2014

I am really impressed with this book. The author communicates with the reader as though he is personally walking you through practical tutorials about how to use ReSharper; it feels like you're being taught by a colleague who knows the tool really well. I am a huge fan of ReSharper's refactoring capabilities, so I was happy to see that the book mentions refactoring in its second paragraph. I find this to be one of the most useful features of ReSharper and appreciate the fact that the author shares the same sentiment.The book covers a lot of material and ReSharper is a very feature-rich tool that is hard to fully encompass in a single publication. The author has done an excellent job of covering the most commonly-used productivity enhancements that it provides. In addition, he has included a great keyboard shortcut cheat sheet at the end of the book that lists the ones he covered, in the order that he introduced them through the chapters. I have found this to be a great ReSharper refresher as I write code.I have been using ReSharper for years and am amazed at how much I didn't know about the product. Features like Safe Delete, covered in Chapter 2, would have saved me a lot of extra manual refactoring work that I've done in the past. Even some features that I would leverage less frequently, such as ReSharper's ability to provide IntelliSense with the MSBuild and NAnt build systems, are mentioned in the book. References like this inspired me to go learn more about the product features through Internet searches.He wraps up the book by discussing how to write ReSharper plug-ins to add features not already included in the product, how to debug those plug-ins, and how to deploy your plug-ins. His explanation of the plug-in architecture and his examples are very clear and easy to follow. Although some of the deeper details of these activities are not included in the book, the author provides links to find the instructions on the Internet. He also recommends a number of released plug-ins that you should consider installing to enhance ReSharper's built-in capabilities.I want to thank Packt Publishing for providing me with a copy of the book for review. It is a fairly quick read that will make you even more productive with Visual Studio and ReSharper. The biggest challenge I found with the book is being able to remember all of the great keyboard shortcuts so I always have them at the ready! This is a great book for any C#/VB .NET developer. If you don't already use ReSharper, this book will show you what you have been missing.You can also find details at the publisher's site here: [...]

Marc Schaerer May 12, 2014

After using Resharper for years for lightweight usage, I didn't know what to expect exactly from Resharper Essentials. I can say that I'm pleasantly surprised by what the book offered for its size, often written in a easily consumable form.Not only did it cover useful things I was not aware of yet, its coverage of Resharper 8 also introduced me to several hidden gems I this far missed, be it the architecture view, the enhanced code quality analysis capabilities or multifile templates.Especially the early focus on using Resharper from a Test Driven Development way of coding was very welcome as the creation and refactor aspects help a lot in breaking down the inner barrier many have regarding real TDD style coding.I highly recommend this book to everyone who uses Resharper for the first time or thus far used Resharper only lightly and would like to step up their productivity but also code quality.It will enable you to leverage a far larger amount of Resharpers power and create better code in significantly less time.

P. H. Merkel Sep 04, 2014

The book is a very good overview but it misses out on details and advanced advises at the 'writing better code' chapter.I can recommend it to anyone trying to get a quick inside and start with R#.

V. Sinitsyn Apr 03, 2014

I've bought "ReSharper Essentials" (the e-book variant) a few weeks ago, and shortly after I finished reading it I was asked to leave a review.I'm a long-time user of stand-alone JetBrains IDEs, and I bought this book after I was assigned a Visual Studio-based project to see if there are any Windows/.NET/VS-specific tricks or features I was unaware of.The book is well-written and relatively short to read in a few days of lunches. I can't say it mentions many features I wasn't aware of, however after finishing it I found myself using ReSharper more extensively than before. If you a new to JetBrains tools (and ReSharper in particular), you'll find a thorough description of what it is capable of; if you are already a seasoned user, it will probably help you to build a complete picture. I especially liked the chapter on recommended ReSharper plugins. You can find loads of these plugins on the Internet: some are real time savers, some aren't - and some guidance is certainly helpful here.The downside is that the book mostly scratches the surface. This is not bad, given its size, however, I'd prefer more tips and advices on how to use ReSharper in real-world scenarios, and less reference material (ReSharper comes with the good documentation, after all). Besides this, all hotkeys in the book are for Visual Studio, not IDEA keyboard scheme, which may come unhandy.To sum up: it's a good introduction to ReSharper, but don't expect too much news if you are already using the tool for a year or more.

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