Chapter 8. Tools for Architects

From the beginning, ReSharper was created to support developers in their work. ReSharper v8 comes with a new tool for viewing project dependencies, which can be very helpful for architects.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Architecture View
  • Advanced references view
  • Global refactoring

Architecture View

While developers are focused mostly on the detailed implementation of projects, architects need a bird's-eye view of it.

ReSharper v8 comes with a new tool, Architecture View. Architecture View is a graph that presents the dependencies between projects in your solution. You can find a similar tool in Visual Studio Ultimate, but with ReSharper, you do not need to have this most expensive version.

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