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ReSharper Essentials

By : Lukasz Gasior
Book Image

ReSharper Essentials

By: Lukasz Gasior

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ReSharper Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The ReSharper SDK


To write plugins for ReSharper, you need to have the Software Development Kit (SDK) installed. Starting from ReSharper v8.1, SDK is divided into two parts, which we'll be discussing in the following sections.

Installing the ReSharper SDK

The first part of the SDK is the MSI installer, which contains Visual Studio project templates, item templates, and samples.

Installing the ReSharper SDK is very easy and can be done by performing the following steps:

  1. Download the installation package. Go to the Down load ReSharper page at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/index.html and click on ReSharper SDK for ReSharper 8.1.x (.msi) in the Related Downloads section.

  2. After opening the downloaded installation package, you should see the standard installation screen. By clicking on the Next button, you can start the installation process.

  3. After performing the previous step, you can open the ReadMe.html file, which contains a quick introduction to creating ReSharper plugins.

Getting the...