Review Assistant is the code review plug-in of Visual Studio.

Our code review tool allows you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio. The Devart Review Assistant supports TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. The settings include an unlimited trial period of 30 days and a free plan.

Start and run within 5 minutes. Our product can become a flawless professional comment assistant for capturing code!

Code review in Visual Studio

Most developers do not like to switch between their IDE and other tools when writing code. Knowing this, we have integrated the code review process into the development environment as much as possible. Now, you can create review comments directly from the code editor. The code review Board window displays the reviews that have been created and allows you to manage them. Moreover, the code review committee contains all the discussions related to code.

Another advantage is that Review Assistant can be installed without Visual Studio.

Flexible code review

The Review Assistant enables you to choose a simple or strict code review workflow for your project. Any developer can start a post commit code review of any revision set.

• The code author will automatically extract it from the repository.
• Multiple code authors can be assigned to one reviewer.
• In the strict code review workflow, the facilitator role can be used.
• A comment can contain code from multiple repositories.
• Unreviewed files are highlighted on the code review board.

Code Discussion

Code review is about improving the code base. The comments and discussions within your team are at the core of the process. Review Assistant supports topic annotations, so team members can discuss code without scheduling a meeting.

• Add comments to specific source code lines, code blocks, files, or entire comments.
• Mark the annotation as a defect that needs to be fixed.
• Provide comments on binary files (such as images).
• Start with code without creating a formal code review.
• Unread comments and replies are highlighted.

Iterative inspection for repairing defects

Review Assistant supports multiple comment fix validation cycles in a single comment.

• The author can immediately view the opened comments in the code editor.
• The defect status is color coded.
• The author can restart the review by adding a revised version with revisions.
• Reviewers can see the exact changes made by the author based on the comments.

Team Foundation Server Integration

Review Assistant provides deeper integration with TFS and Visual Studio Online.

• Quickly import TFS projects with users into Review Assistant.
• Start using shelveset for pre submission code review.
• Use our check-in policy to prevent unauthorized check-in of codes.
• One click view of all change sets for work items.
• Review the work items related to the review on the code review Committee.

Notification matters

Set up the Review Assistant server to send email notifications about code review events. The client provides other pop-up notifications in Visual Studio.

You can choose the number of notifications you want to receive.

The custom URI scheme supports navigation from email clients to Visual Studio.

Code review Reports and Statistics

The Review Assistant provides a set of code review reports to help you guide the code review process.

• The 'Comment Status' report provides a view of who may be blocking comments.
• The code coverage report helps you track the revisions being reviewed in the repository.
• Detailed reports allow comments with annotations to be exported in a printable format.
• Statistical reports provide you with performance data about authors and reviewers.

Replace Visual Studio code checking feature

If needed, please select 'View Assistant' instead of Visual Studio's' Native Code Viewing 'feature:

• View multiple change sets;
• Conduct iterative comments;
• Develop policies to prevent code from being checked in without inspection;
• Enable the official code review of the moderator;
• View code review statistics and reports.