I have shown today few tricks with ReSharper to one of my teammates. I think it worth to be shared/stored in the blog.

  1. View the code used from a referenced assembly

Very often you want to see how a referenced assembly is used in your project. We can use dedicated tools to work this out (for example, NDepend) or you can just click on a project in solution explorer, expand “References” node, select an assembly, right-click and select “Find Dependent Code”. You will see a nice “Find Results” window with all places where this referenced assembly is used.

Same way, you can analyze project dependencies in a multi-project solution. I think you will be rewarded in future if your presentation assemblies will not depend from a project with database stuff.

  1. Setting a keyboard shortcut to run a unit test

I’m sure that any keyboard ninja knows it. Do you want to learn a bit of kung-fu? Go to keyboard settings configuration in Visual Studio (Tools > Options… > Environment > Keyboard), find a command named “ReSharper.UnitTest_ContextRun” and assign a shortcut to it. I hang it to “Ctrl+1”.

Now, when you’re editing a class containing unit tests, you can just press your newly created shortcut and ReSharper will run the tests: if you’re inside a test method (method marked with [Test]) only the current test will run; if you’re somewhere in the class, but outside of a test method, R# will run all tests from this class.