Why?

Imagine you open a file with ReSharper suggestions or warnings or errors and doubt whether the tool is correct.

You may feel the suggestions are ok - but if you want to become a better developer, you need to understand the reason behind them. Otherwise the tool will be smarter than you ;)

(It works the other way around too. Smart people are often good mentors, and you may want to share your knowledge about some R# suggestion - just because someone else might be struggling with the same issue right now.)

So, Whysharper provides an easy and natural way for sharing and learning.

How?

With the plugin installed, there's a new option added to every R# suggestion:

After you hit the "why" you'll get a link or two with decent discussions. Just read over and you'll understand why you may need a change.

What's next?

It's a community tool and it's you, the user, who will make it shine.

A lot of R# suggestions don't have links to the explanations yet - and existing ones might be unavailable or outdated.

If you come across a dead link or know a worthwhile discussion about a particular issue, feel free to open a bug. After your suggestion is applied, it will become visible to all Whysharper users next time they restart Visual Studio.