ReSharper Turns 20!

20 Years of Leading the Way in Developer Tools

A staple of the .NET developer community since 2004, ReSharper boasts over 2.5 million downloads as the most popular extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace. With its initial release, ReSharper's impact was immediate, transforming how developers explore, write, improve, and maintain their code. Let's take a closer look at the extension's major milestones and its lasting influence on the .NET ecosystem.

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What ReSharper users say

I vividly recall the day I first started using ReSharper. It was around May 2004, back when Visual Studio .NET 2003 was the norm. I eagerly installed ReSharper EAP 0.81, and it immediately transformed my development experience.

ReSharper brought a wealth of features: code navigation, completion, formatting, generation, and find usages. However, one feature stood out to me — the powerful refactoring capabilities. Renaming, introducing variables, moving types, changing signatures, and extracting methods were all new in the .NET universe, and ReSharper became an essential tool for me.

Over the years, it remained my trusted companion, helping me be a more productive developer.

Laurent Kempé

Distinguished Solution Architect at Innoveo AG

Laurent Kempé

Distinguished Solution Architect at Innoveo AG

I vividly recall the day I first started using ReSharper. It was around May 2004, back when Visual Studio .NET 2003 was the norm. I eagerly installed ReSharper EAP 0.81, and it immediately transformed my development experience.

ReSharper brought a wealth of features: code navigation, completion, formatting, generation, and find usages. However, one feature stood out to me — the powerful refactoring capabilities. Renaming, introducing variables, moving types, changing signatures, and extracting methods were all new in the .NET universe, and ReSharper became an essential tool for me.

Over the years, it remained my trusted companion, helping me be a more productive developer.

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