What are the best refactoring plugins for Visual Studio?

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Best refactoring plugins for Visual Studio	Price	Last Updated
-- Visual Assist	Paid	Jun 12, 2021
-- ReSharper	Paid	Jan 15, 2021
-- CodeRush	-	Oct 8, 2015

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Visual Assist

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ReSharper

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Testing tools are handy

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Increases build (compile) time

Adds a considerable time onto building my Xamarin Forms project. See More

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Ctrl + T is useful look of classes, enums, interfaces, etc

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It can mangle Visual Studio settings

Occasionally Visual Studio and Resharper settings can get into a tug of war. Features can disappear, for example, Intellisense can vanish, and you're often resetting options in hopes of getting yourself back to a working IDE. See More

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Refactoring tools are powerful

Extract interfaces, generate constructors, rename namespaces, create equality statements, create ToString() summaries, etc. See More

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Licencing cost and T&Cs

The license T&Cs are somewhat harsh. The yearly license gets you a year's worth of updates, but you don't get major version release within that window. Instead, you're downgraded to the previous major version that you bought the license on. See More

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Extremely useful when reading code written by others

ReSharper has a built-in "go to implementation" feature which takes you to the body of the implementation of a method from an interface. This makes it easy to read code written by other people simply by going over the interfaces and using this feature to quickly find the implementation of a particular method. See More

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Performance leaves something to be desired

The performance has been an issue for years, and many developers who have tried this tool gave up because of the performance hit running it. You may often find the tool to make Visual Studio slow down to almost an intolerable level. See More

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CodeRush

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What are the best refactoring plugins for Visual Studio?

3 Options Considered

Visual Assist

My Recommendation for Visual Assist

My Recommendation for Visual Assist

ReSharper

My Recommendation for ReSharper

My Recommendation for ReSharper

Testing tools are handy

Increases build (compile) time

Ctrl + T is useful look of classes, enums, interfaces, etc

It can mangle Visual Studio settings

Refactoring tools are powerful

Licencing cost and T&Cs

Extremely useful when reading code written by others

Performance leaves something to be desired

CodeRush

My Recommendation for CodeRush

My Recommendation for CodeRush

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