Review Assistant

Review Assistant is a code review plug-in for Visual Studio. Our code review tool allows you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio.

Code review tool – Review Assistant

Review Assistant is a code review plug-in for Visual Studio (compatible with Visual Studio 2026). It allows you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio. Review Assistant supports TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. It is available for a 30-day trial and a free plan. Get it up and running within 5 minutes.

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Code reviews in Visual Studio

Most developers do not like to switch between their IDEs and other tools while working with their code. Knowing this, we integrated the code review process directly into Visual Studio. You can now create review comments directly from the code editor. The Code Review Board window displays created reviews and allows you to manage them. What is more, Code Review Board contains all code-related discussions.

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

TFS

Git

Subversion

Mercurial

Perforce

Flexible code reviews

Review Assistant lets you choose a simple or strict code review workflow for your projects. Any developer can start post-commit code review on any set of revisions.

Code author is automatically pulled from a repository
Multiple code authors can be assigned to a single review
The moderator role is available in the strict code review workflow
One review can contain code from multiple repositories
Unreviewed files are highlighted on Code Review Board

Discussions in code

Code reviews are about improving your code base. Comments and discussions within your team are the heart of the process. Review Assistant supports threaded comments, so team members can discuss code without scheduled meetings.

Add comments on specific source lines, blocks of code, files, or the entire review
Flag comments as defects that need to be fixed
Provide comments on binary files, such as images
Start discussions in the code without creating a formal code review
Unread comments and replies are highlighted

Iterative review with defect fixing

Review Assistant supports multiple comment-fix-verify cycles in one review.

The author can instantly see open comments in the code editor
Defect statuses are color-coded
The author can restart a review by adding revisions with fixes
The reviewer can see exact changes made by the author according to comments

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Team Foundation Server integration

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

Quickly import TFS projects to Review Assistant
Start pre-commit code review using shelvesets
Use our check-in policy to prevent checking-in code without a review
Review all changesets of a work item in one click
View work items related to a review on Code Review Board

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Notifications

Set up the Review Assistant server to send email notifications about code review events. The lient provides additional pop-up notifications within Visual Studio.

You choose how many notifications you want to receive
Custom URI scheme enables navigation from the email client to Visual Studio

Code review reports and statistics

Review Assistant provides a set of code review reports that help you steer the code review process.

Reviews Status report provides a view of who might be holding up reviews
Code Coverage report helps you tracking revisions being reviewed in a repository
Detailed report allows exporting a review with comments to a printable format
Statistics reports provide you performance data about authors and reviewers

More about code review reporting