JetBrains shipped an official ReSharper extension for VS Code in March 2026, and a .NET developer who primarily uses Rider shares how it finally makes VS Code viable for C# work. The post covers what ReSharper adds over C# Dev Kit — including deep refactorings (Extract Interface, Move Type to File, Change Signature), assembly decompilation for NuGet navigation, a proper Solution Explorer, live templates, postfix completion, and runtime-safety inspections. It also provides a concrete setup guide: install ReSharper and the Microsoft C# extension for debugging, disable C# Dev Kit to avoid conflicts, and configure launch.json. The author isn't switching from Rider but values having a capable fallback for borrowed laptops, Linux machines, dev containers, and SSH sessions.
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