If you are using StyleCop in your projects, most of the time, you need to remove unused namespaces and sort them. In order to achieve best possible coding performance, you need to know as many hotkeys as possible.
Sort and Remove Usings
If we have the following usings:
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Dynamic;
If you run StyleCop with default settings, the following warnings will be displayed.
You can sort and remove unused usings from the context menu.
Also, you can assign a new hotkey for the command above. To do so, open Options > Environment > Keyboard
Search for Edit.RemoveAndSort. For Use new shortcut: choose Text Editor and assign the desired shortcut. Next time, you just need to press “Ctrl+Shift+W” to remove unused namespaces and sort them accordingly.
Place System Directives First
The above strategies are not working in all cases for the warning: “Warning 15 SA1208: CSharp.Ordering: System using directives must be placed before all other using directives.” For example, if you have using Automapper; it will be always sorted on top of the System usings. You can control this behavior from the Visual Studio Options.
Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced > Place ‘System’ directives first when sorting usings
You can find more detailed information in the official Microsoft documentation here.
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