

So, how much is ReSharper? A commercial license is $129 for the first year, $103 for the second year, and $77 for the third year onwards. Since the day I started using this plug-in, I never looked back and the more I learned to use it, the more pleasing my coding experience became. I’m just one of their many happy customers. How much does ReSharper cost?įirst, I’m not a ReSharper affiliate, neither do I work for JetBrains, the company that develops ReSharper. And even then, most of Microsoft’s focus is on adding more application templates (macro-level) rather than coding and refactoring features (micro-level). A new version of ReSharper is released every few months, whilst Visual Studio gets updated once every 2 – 3 years. Visual Studio is way behind what ReSharper provides and this distance gets more over time. These are the features that IntelliJ IDEA (used by Java developers) have had for a long, long time. Visual Studio, despite being around for more than a decade and having support for building all kinds of applications, still misses on some basic code navigation and editing features.

Just in case you don’t know what ReSharper is, it’s a plug-in for Visual Studio that adds many awesome code navigation and editing features that I wish we had in Visual Studio. You don’t have to agree with me, but I want you to spend only 5 minutes reading this short post and another 1 minute thinking about it. But in this post, I’m going to express my point of view regarding ReSharper. Some of the students in my Clean Coding course have criticised me for relying too much on ReSharper. I welcome this criticism and in my new recordings, I show the non-ReSharper way in parallel. November 22nd, 2015 Comments What is ReSharper and is it worth the money?
