Build 804 of ReSharper 4 has been tagged as a "beta candidate, stable". Does this the mean a full release is just around the corner? I sure hope so! I've been using the nightly EAP builds since mid-February, and although they've mostly been working OK, there's certainly been a fair share of bugs and poor performance. To be expected from unreleased bits, of course, but very frustrating still.

Anyway's, I have a feeling there are a lot of ReSharper users out there these days - I've at least met a lot of people who use it (we actually had trouble finding someone to give away a free license of it to at the last local .NET user group meeting, as almost everyone already had one!), so I thought I would start a series of posts which highlight some of its features I find the most useful. I'll try and post a new tip at the start of every week, until I run dry (or get bored doing it :p).

To start things off, we'll have a look at finding things (not car keys, though; sadly ReSharper can't help out there):

Finding Types

Hit Ctrl + T anywhere, and you'll see the "Find type" dialogue. This allows you to search for and jump to any type declaration within the current solution:

It also supports filtering by CamelHumps, which allows you to skip lower-case letters in the search string. Notice how it finds the types with a first word that starts with "D" and a second word with starts with "Cont":

You can also use wildcards:

Finding Other Things

As well as the ability to find types, there's an equivalent dialogue for finding files, which is accessed by hitting Ctrl + Shift + T. It will find any type of file within the solution, with the same features:

And finally, there's the Find Symbol dialogue, which searches for - yes, you guessed it - symbols. It is activated by Alt + Shift + T, and will find any symbol of any access in any type declared within the current solution:

That's it for part one. Next time, we'll look at more ways to quickly navigate your codebase.