Refactoring in Visual studio 2010 express - visual-studio-2010

Help or suggestion will do.
I'm installing the Visual Studio Express 2010, i know we cannot use resharper with express edition. i need know do i have any other alternate tool that i can use with visual studio Express 2010 edition.
Sameer,

The Express Edition of Visual Studio do not support add-ins. As far as refactoring is concerned, Visual Studio has some built-in refactoring functionalities which could come handy.

The Express Edition of Visual Studio do not support add-ins. As far as refactoring is concerned, Visual Studio has some built-in refactoring functionalities which could come handy.
The express version however does only have two refactoring functionalities: rename and extract method, the other functionalities like encapsulate are not present.

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