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CSharp.Refactor

CSharp.Refactor

Tuomas Hietanen

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Functional refactoring hints with one-click fixes for C# - the CSharp.Refactor Roslyn analyzers, wired into every C# project on this machine with your consent.
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View -> Command Palette -> CSharp.Refactor to drive the command line tool for the full project:

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And IDE light bulbs while you type

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Functional refactoring hints with one-click quick fixes for C#, delivered through the C# extension's Roslyn language server.

The extension bundles the CSharp.Refactor analyzer assembly and, on first activation, asks to wire it into every C# project on this machine through MSBuild's user ImportBefore hook (one props file under your user profile). Decline and nothing is written; CSharp.Refactor: Wire analyzers re-offers it any time, and Remove the machine-wide wiring undoes it. A project opts out with <CSharpRefactorDisable>true</CSharpRefactorDisable>.

After wiring, restart the C# language server (or reload the window) and open a C# file: suggestions appear as CR-prefixed hints with a light-bulb fix. CSharp.Refactor: Status reports the versions and the wiring.

Five more commands drive the csharp-refactor dotnet tool (offering to install it when missing):

  • CSharp.Refactor: Run the tool on this workspace — the light bulbs fix one finding at a time; this runs the sweep. Picks a solution or project, then Report only (--dry-run), Apply fixes, or Apply fixes with --api-changes, in the integrated terminal. Every pass is verified and put back on error, as on the command line.
  • CSharp.Refactor: Run the tool with --api-changes — the same sweep with the scope gate opened: public shapes and cross-file rewrites too.
  • CSharp.Refactor: Write a SARIF report for this workspace — a dry run with --report, for code scanning or as the --baseline of a later run; .csv and .html paths are written in those formats instead.
  • CSharp.Refactor: Create or open the configuration — appends the commented block of every rule and key at its default to the workspace's .editorconfig and opens it.
  • CSharp.Refactor: Review advisory notes as a page — the fix-less findings as a self-contained HTML page in the browser.
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