- Posted by liammclennan on May 8, 2009
At the Brisbane ALT.NET meeting last night (which rocked and had code kata) we had a discussion about the Resharper guidance "Using directive is not required by the code and can be safely removed".
I was saying that I like to leave the System.Linq reference even if it is not being used. Heinrich demonstrated that if you type
from a in "astring"
select a;
resharper suggests adding the linq reference back in. But here is an example of linq code (collection extension method) for which resharper does not correctly detect the required reference:
var a = new string[] {"serfsdfas"}.Where(
In this case you have to know that the System.Linq using statement is required. That is why I like to leave it in even when it is not being used.
Prior to this I wrote the greatest and best blog post in the world, and accidently deleted it by hitting Backspace. I'll probably get over it one day. Probably not today.
