Question

Using Resharper 5 and Visual Studio 2010, C#.

The class StackOverflow in the following code doesn’t yet exist, and yet Resharper doesn’t offer context options like “Create nested class” for it. Could you explain why?

namespace StackOverflow
{
    public class SomeSetOfTests
    {
        public void AFirstTest()
        {
            var overflow = new StackOverflow();
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

You’re in a namespace called StackOverflow. That’s bound to cause problems. I mean, you could create a class with the same name – the following compiles:

namespace StackOverflow
{
    public class SomeSetOfTests
    {
        public void AFirstTest()
        {
            var overflow = new StackOverflow();
        }

        private class StackOverflow
        {
        }
    }
}

… but it’s a really bad idea.

I would guess that ReSharper is trying to save you from your folly.