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Having now read Martin Fowler's "Refactoring," I would like to know what refactoring options are available in Visual Studio (Express especially, and for C# especially). The built-in IDE seems to just have Rename Variable and Extract Method; what's surprising is that 2003 (non-express) has around half-a-dozen refactorings.

What kind of tools and options are available, other than the IDE and refactoring by hand? I primarily use Express versions of Visual Studio, so brownie points for finding something that'll work without Visual Studio Professional.

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  • Since VS Express versions do not support add-ins, you will have a hard time finding tools that can do this for you. Commented Nov 25, 2010 at 16:50
  • If you don't have a lot of money then you'd better have a lot of time. Commented Nov 25, 2010 at 17:02
  • SmallTalk's refactoring browser started out as an additional, third-party (non-IDE-integrated) tool. Since refactoring spread from there (according to Fowler, anyway) I have hopes that something exists. NUnit, PartCover, etc. all exist independently of the IDE. Commented Nov 25, 2010 at 17:09

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Get yourself a copy of resharper by Jetbrains. Worth every penny and then some.

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And buy a better computer at once, because performance of VS.NET with R# sucks big time.
@lex-lavnikov Which version of VS are you referring to? VS2010 is considerably more "sluggish" than 2008 due to the WPF implementation. I noticed no performance degredation after installing Resharper.

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