ReSharper 7 vs. Visual Studio 2012
This document lists some of the features that are provided by ReSharper 7 but are missing or not as fully implemented in Visual Studio 2012.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 + ReSharper 7
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Code Analysis |
Design-time code analysis | On-the-fly design-time code analysis |
| 230 code analysis rules (code inspections) | 1476 code analysis rules (code inspections) | |
| Design-time error highlighting: some compiler errors | Design-time error highlighting: most compiler errors, many possible runtime errors (such as detection of possible null reference exceptions) | |
| Adjustable code inspections: 3 severity levels. Need to go to project options to configure | Adjustable code inspections: 5 severity levels. Can be configured right from the text editor | |
| Sharing code analysis settings | Sharing code analysis settings on a solution or team level | |
| Smart tags to resolve compiler errors | 680 quick-fixes to resolve errors and code quality issues | |
| Solution-wide error analysis | ||
| Reporting all errors and code quality issues in any scope, up to the entire solution | ||
| Naming style control | ||
| Custom code inspections with code annotations and structural search and replace patterns | ||
Refactoring |
6 automated refactorings | 47 automated refactorings |
| 200+ context actions (automated code transformations) | ||
Coding Assistance |
Code completion | Code completion is context-driven, can suggest types and extension methods from the entire solution |
| Auto-import namespace import directives | Auto-import namespace import directives | |
| Completing entire code statements | ||
| Rearranging logical blocks of code | ||
| Localization assistance | ||
| Spell checking: available via Agent Smith, ReSpeller, and YouCantSpell plug-ins | ||
Navigation & Search |
Go to declaration | Go to declaration |
| Find references | Find references | |
| Highlight references | Highlight references | |
| Go to symbol | Go to symbol | |
| Go to type | Go to type | |
| Go to file member | Go to file member | |
| Go to file | Go to file | |
| Code bookmarks | Code bookmarks | |
| Navigation up and down inheritance hierarchy in the editor | ||
| Indication of type inheritors and method overrides | ||
| Structural search and replace | ||
| Go to base type | ||
| Go to inheritor | ||
| Go to related files | ||
| Navigate external sources | ||
| View recent files | ||
| View recent edits | ||
| Type hierarchy view | ||
| Project hierarchy view | ||
| Members hierarchy view | ||
| CSS style hierarchy view | ||
| File structure | ||
| Solution-wide to-do browser | ||
| Stack trace explorer | ||
Code Generation |
Create from usage | Create from usage |
| Code snippets (templates) | Code snippets (templates) | |
| Generate files from template | Generate files from template | |
| Visual editor for code snippets (templates) | ||
| Generate type members | ||
| Generate properties | ||
| Generate constructors | ||
Code Cleanup |
Reformat code | Reformat code |
| Optimize namespace import directives | Optimize namespace import directives | |
| Remove code redundancies | ||
| Organize type members | ||
| Code Cleanup: performs all cleanup tasks in one go | ||
Unit Testing |
Unit test explorer | Unit test explorer |
| MSTest support | MSTest support | |
| NUnit support | ||
| QUnit support | ||
| Jasmine support | ||
| MbUnit support: available via Gallio plug-in | ||
| xUnit.net support: available via xUnit.net Contrib project plug-in | ||
| MSpec support: available via MSpec Test Runner plug-in | ||
| Multiple unit test sessions | ||