Extension for Visual Studio Community 2019 to move class into a separate file

Question

I need an extension for MS Visual Studio Community 2019, that allows me to mark a block of C#-code and move it to a separate file. For example a class that is declared in the main method of my application.

I'm following a C# training class on Udemy and the instructor uses ReSharper for this task. Resharper will cost my just shy of 400€. As I'm unemployed trying to add C# to my list of skills I do not have 400€ to spend on this. A free extension would obviously be best for me. I don't like to set a max budget as I don't know what kind of price is fair for such an extension.

ReSharper does have a 30 free trial, but I'm not going with that option, since there is no way I can complete both the intermediate course and advanced course over 30 days.

I hope this question makes sense. :-)

Answer 1

Hope you learned your lesson. The best ideas is not to code like this in the first place :-)

Sorry, no offence, but while you are learning, it's best to learn good habits, not bad.

Anyway, I didn't come here to insult you, I came here to help you.

So I visited the Alternative To site and this page lists

Productivity Power Tools

A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.

use comment :

"I will also download Move Class To File which is one of the main reasons for ReSharper."

Looks like that is what you want? Good luck

Answer 2

With your example of "a class that is declared in the main method of my application" Visual Studio already allows you to do that natively (has done since VS2017), simply right click the name of the class then select 'Quick actions and refactorings' and then "Move type to xxxx.cs"

Reference: https://windowsdebugging.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/vs2017-moving-class-into-file/