If you are a ReSharper user, then you will have know that it has a Code Inspection feature that, as well as highlighting errors and warnings, can make suggestions and hints that could improve your code. If you see one of these hints, and don’t understand why you are getting the hint, then it is, of course, a good idea to follow the link to the ReSharper website to learn something new.

However you don’t have to wait until you write sub-optimal code before you get any benefit, you can read all of the ReSharper Code Inspections Reference right now! I won’t claim it’s the most riveting read, it’s a reference document after all, but you might pick up a few pointers to writing better code before you’ve written it. For example, I recently found the Static Member in Generic Type article quite enlightening.

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