Feature Release

New Features

• New LINQ analyzers that suggest replacing expressions with equivalent expressions with equivalent expressions that are more readable, or use modern language features, or improve performance.
• New string analyzers that suggests replacing expressions with equivalent expressions that are more readable, or use modern language features, or improve performance.
• New StringBuilder analyzers that suggests replacing expressions with equivalent expressions that are more readable or improve performance.
• Show a suggestion when the base type declaration can be omitted.
• New context action to annotate type parameters, parameters, and return values with [DefaultEqualityUsage].
• New context action to toggle the return type of async methods between Task and ValueTask or Task<T> and ValueTask<T>.
• New context action to replace string.IsNullOrEmpty with equivalent modern language features.

Improved

• Annotation analyzers now check if the nullability annotation ? is applied to return types of async and iterator methods.
• Analyzer for "throwing exceptions from unexpected locations" now extended to check finally blocks and exception filter expressions.
• Analyzer for detected yield return statements inside lock scopes is now aware of the new Lock type and doesn't issue warnings because it's done by the compiler.
• Ensures compatibility with ReSharper 2024.3.2