Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Organize Usings

Organize Usings is a C#-only IntelliSense item. It provides two separate functions: Remove Unused Usings and Sort Usings. It also provides a third command, Remove and Sort, that combines the two actions into one. All three commands live under the Organize Usings menu item on the editor shortcut menu, or under the main Edit, IntelliSense menu.

The Remove Unused Usings function is a great aid for uncluttering your code. It parses through the current body of code and determines which Using statements are necessary for the code to compile; it then removes all other Using statements. The Sort command is straightforward as well; it simply rearranges all of your Using statements so that they appear in A–Z alphabetical order by namespace. ...