ReSharper 9 vs ReSharper 8
Highlights of ReSharper 9 include support for Visual Studio 2015 and C# 6, drastically improved TypeScript support, regular expressions support, more bulk quick-fixes, a new file layout editor and navigation actions. ReSharper 9 also introduces a new platform to reduce memory usage working together with dotCover, dotTrace, dotMemory and dotPeek. For details, please see What's New in ReSharper 9.
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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 | |
| Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio 2013 | |
| Visual Studio 2015 | Visual Studio 2015 (RTM only) | |
Code analysis |
1400+ code inspections | 1700+ code inspections |
| Fix in scope mechanic introduced for ~40 quick-fixes in C# and VB.NET | Fix in scope is supported by 79 quick-fixes in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript and ASP.NET | |
| Project Dependency Diagram | Project Dependency Diagram | |
| Type Dependency Diagram | ||
| Regular expressions analysis with quick-fixes and a separate Validation Utility for on-the-fly testing | ||
Refactorings and context actions |
220+ context actions | Added 50+ new context actions |
| 52 refactorings | Copy Type, Introduce Field and Move refactorings are now available for JavaScript and TypeScript | |
Code completion and generation |
Symbol code completion | Symbol code completion |
| Smart code completion | Smart code completion | |
| Import symbol completion | Import symbol completion | |
| Generative completion | Completion based on Solution Wide Analysis results | |
| Filters in code completion | ||
Code style assistance |
Code cleanup | Code cleanup |
| Naming style | Automatic correction of naming style violations in the current file, project or solution | |
| Formatting rules | Reformatting of selected code block in JavaScript and TypeScript | |
| Type member layout | Visual editor for file and type layout | |
| A number of new code style preferences that have common configurations for both code inspection and code cleanup | ||
Navigation
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Navigate to Assembly Explorer | Ability to set Assembly Explorer as the default navigation destination for compiled code |
| Go to Everything | Recently viewed methods and performance improvements in Go to Everything | |
| Improved Find Results window | ||
| Go to Action | ||
| Navigate to Exposing APIs | ||
| Search in ReSharper options | ||
Supported languages |
C#: up to version 5.0 | C#: up to version 6.0 |
| VB.NET: up to version 11 | VB.NET: up to version 11 | |
| XAML | XAML | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript: new code inspections, quick-fixes and refactorings, JS to TS converter | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript is supported up to version 1.3: 270 new code inspections, 50 new quick-fixes and 6 new refactorings | |
| XML | XML | |
| HTML | HTML | |
| CSS | CSS | |
| Build scripts | Build scripts | |
Extensibility |
NuGet-based Extension Manager (for Visual Studio 2010 and higher) | Single NuGet-based Extension Manager for the all JetBrains .NET tools that operate on a shared platform |
Shared platform |
Each of the installed tool has an impact on overall performance | All JetBrains .NET tools including ReSharper, dotTrace, dotMemory, dotCover and dotPeek start to operate on a shared platfrom, which conserves resources when several products are running at the same time |