"ReSharper 4.5 vs Plain Visual Studio 2008" Comparison
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— Unsupported — Supported — Better support
| Feature | Visual Studio 2008 | ReSharper 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Code Analysis | ||
| On-the-fly error highlighting | yes(SP1) | better |
| Solution-wide error highlighting | no | yes |
| Solution-wide warnings and suggestions | no | yes |
Possible NullReferenceException analysis |
no | yes |
| Code inspections | no | ~750 |
| Quick-fixes to resolve errors | no | ~550 |
| Annotated .NET Framework classes | no | yes |
| Namespace import pop-up | yes | better |
| Coding Assistance | ||
| Code completion | yes | better |
| Smart completion (context-driven) | no | yes |
| Import Symbol completion (completes types and extension methods from entire solution) | no | yes |
| Code snippets (templates) | yes | better |
| Generate file from template | yes | better |
| Generate type members | no | yes |
| Complete Statement | no | yes |
| Rearrange code | no | yes |
| Navigation & Search | ||
| Go to declaration | yes | better |
| Go to base type | no | yes |
| Go to inheritor | no | yes |
| Find references | yes | better |
| Go to reference | no | yes |
| Highlight references | no | yes |
| Go to type | no | yes |
| Go to file | no | yes |
| Go to symbol | no | yes |
| View recent files | no | yes |
| View recent edits | no | yes |
| Type hierarchy | no | yes |
| File structure | yes1 | yes |
| To-do browser (solution-wide) | no | yes |
| Stack trace explorer | no | yes |
| Refactorings | ||
| Solution-wide refactorings | 7 | 35 |
| Context actions | no | 158 |
| Code Cleanup | ||
| Optimize namespace import directives | yes | yes |
| Remove code redundancies | no | yes |
| Organize type members | no | yes |
| Reformat code | yes | better |
| Code Cleanup: performs all cleanup tasks in one go | no | yes |
| Unit Testing | ||
| NUnit support | no | yes |
| MbUnit support | no | yes2 |
| xUnit.net support | no | yes3 |
| MSTest support | yes | yes |
| Unit test explorer | no | yes |
| Multiple unit test sessions | no | yes |
| Profiler integration | no | yes |
- Available via Source Code Outliner power toy
- Available via Gallio plugin
- Available via bundled plugin
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