title: Alternatives to Resharper
body: <p>Just before you sigh and mark this question as a duplicate, I can tell you, it is not.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen a lot of questions about replacing Resharper with something else, but <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/2834439/809357">most</a> of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/6431133/809357">them</a> are out of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/4608972/809357">date</a>. I'd like to get this question raised again with a view to current situation in the world of VS extensions.</p>
  
  <p>I have been using R# for the last 2 years and have paid out of my pocket for V7 and for upgrade to V8. But more and more I use it, I feel it is a drag! Drag on CPU resources and drag trying to fight the bloody thing. Visual Studio is horribly slow with it enabled. One of the projects I work on has 230K lines of code and R# is very slow there!</p>
  
  <p>I wish Resharper was modular and I could turn off most of it's features. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried Productivity Power Tools and they add a lot of value, but don't have critical functionality I'm after</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, my question is: what extensions can do the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Nice test runner. Where you can right click on the test and say Run. Native VS test runner is horrible.</p></li>
  <li><p>Refactorings. Some refactorings are presented in VS natively which is nice, but anything past extracting a variable is non-existing. Renaming is very nice in R#, but I've never seen this implemented anywhere else.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I know this question is a bit off-topic - asking to recommend a product. But people did ask  similar questions here, hence I decided to ask as well.</p>
  
  <p><strong>2nd July 2018 Edit</strong> 4 years after and I still get upvotes on this question, so I guess it is a time for an update. I'm on Visual Studio 2017 (currently 15.7.4) and don't have Resharper installed on any of my machines. And it is working just fine. Built-in functionality is mostly doing what is needed, even built-in Test Runner is fine. </p>
  
  <p>There was a period of withdrawal when I was missing R#, but after almost 2 years without R#, I can say - native VS is good (and fast) enough to work on web projects. Yes, some R# features are still missing, but not enough to grant R# behemoth to weight me down.</p>