Review Assistant is a code review plugin for Visual Studio.

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

It can start and run within 5 minutes. Our product can become a professional review assistant for capturing flawless 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 as much as possible into the development environment. Now, you can create review comments directly from the code editor. The Code Review Committee window displays the reviews that have been created and allows you to manage them. Moreover, the code review committee includes all discussions related to the code.

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

Flexible code review

Review Assistant allows you to choose between simple or rigorous code review workflows for your project. Any developer can start a post submission code review for any revision set.

1. The code author will automatically extract from the repository.
2. Multiple code authors can be assigned to one reviewer.
3. In a strict code review workflow, the role of a moderator can be used.
4. A comment can contain code from multiple repositories.
5. Unreviewed files are highlighted on the code review board.

Code discussion

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

1. Add comments to specific lines of source code, code blocks, files, or entire comments.
2. Mark the comments as defects that need to be fixed.
3. Provide comments on binary files (such as images).
4. Start the discussion with code without creating a formal code review.
5. Unread comments and replies are highlighted.

Iterative inspection for fixing defects

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

1. The author can immediately view the opened comments in the code editor.
2. The defect status is color coded.
3. The author can restart the review by adding a revised version with revisions.
4. 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.

1. Quickly import TFS projects with users into Review Assistant.
2. Start using a shelf set for pre submitted code checks.
3. Use our check-in policy to prevent unchecked check-in codes.
4. One click view of all change sets for work items.
5. View work items related to the review on the Code Review Committee.

Notice 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.

Custom URI schemes support navigation from email clients to Visual Studio.

Code review report and statistical data

The review assistant provides a set of code review reports to assist you in guiding the code review process.

1. The 'Comment Status' report provides a view of who may block comments.
2. Code coverage reports can help you track revisions under review in the repository.
3. The detailed report allows for exporting comments with annotations to a printable format.
4. Statistical reports provide you with performance data on authors and reviewers.

Replace the Visual Studio code checking feature

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

1. View multiple change sets;
2. Perform iterative comments;
3. Develop policies to prevent code from being checked in without inspection;
4. Enable formal code review by the host;
5. View code review statistics and reports.