ReSharper 8 vs ReSharper 7
Compare the latest and greatest ReSharper 8 with its predecessor. Highlights of ReSharper 8 include support for Visual Studio 2013, new architecture tools, drastically improved XAML support, more refactorings, and an easier way to fix common .NET code issues. For details, please see What's New in ReSharper 8.
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ReSharper 7
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ReSharper 8
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Supported versions of Visual Studio |
Visual Studio 2005 | Visual Studio 2005 |
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| Visual Studio 2008 | Visual Studio 2008 | |
| Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio 2010 | |
| Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio 2012 including Blue Theme | |
| Visual Studio 2013 | ||
Code analysis |
1400+ code inspections | Added 21 new code inspections |
| Local quick-fixes for detected issues | Quick-fixes can be applied in a larger scope | |
| Architecture tools | ||
Refactorings and context actions |
200+ context actions | Added 24 new context actions |
| 46 refactorings | 49 refactorings: added 3 new refactorings, specifically Move Instance Method, Inline Parameter and Pull Parameter (a sophisticated case of Change Signature). In addition, Extract Style, Extract/Move Resource and Inline Resource are now available in XAML | |
Code completion and generation |
Live, surround, and file templates | Live, surround, file and a new type of multifile templates |
| Symbol code completion | Symbol code completion | |
| Smart code completion | Smart code completion | |
| Import symbol completion | Import symbol completion | |
| Generative completion | ||
| Double completion | ||
| Cast and sender completion | ||
| Formatting specifier completion (details on all code completion improvements) | ||
Navigation
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Navigation to decompiled code | Improved decompiler (better support for async methods and await expressions, expression trees and field-like events; BAML decompiler) |
| Go to Type | Go to Everything | |
| Navigate to Generic Substitutions | ||
| Navigate to Assembly Explorer (details on all navigation improvements) | ||
Supported languages |
C#: up to version 5.0 | C#: up to version 5.0 |
| VB.NET: up to version 11 | VB.NET: up to version 11 | |
| XAML | XAML: new code inspections, quick-fixes, context actions, and refactorings (details) | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| XML | XML | |
| HTML | HTML | |
| CSS | CSS: new code inspections, quick-fixes, and context actions (details) | |
| Build scripts | Build scripts | |
Extensibility |
Extensibility via plugins with manual discovery and installation | NuGet-based Extension Manager for easy discovery and installation of plugins and other types of extensions (for Visual Studio 2010 and higher) |