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Context Actions

Apart from significantly improving existing features and adding support for .NET 2.0 and VS 2005 ReSharper 2.0 offers a good number of completely new features. One of them is context actions.
This feature is available through lightbulb icon (similar to one used for QuickFixes, but it is yellow):



As with quickfixes, you can access the list of context actions by pressing Alt+Enter or clicking the bulb:



And, of course, any of available actions can be applied:



Available set of context actions is not very broad, but includes very useful ones:

• Split if (a && b) { ... } into if (a) { if(b) { ... } )
• Transform "Hello, " + name + "!" to string.Format("Hello, {0}!", name)
• Implement abstract or interface member
• And others

Here I must confess that one of my greatest hopes is that extension capabilities we introduce in ReSharper 2.0 will be at least as popular as IDEA's; in particular I hope our users will implement their own context actions - general or specific for their project. Posted by Oleg Stepanov at December 23, 2005 11:27 AM | TrackBack