ReSharper 2016.3 vs ReSharper 2016.2
This page will help you compare ReSharper 2016.3 with its predecessor. The latest ReSharper adds initial support for Visual Studio 2017 RC, C# 7 and VB.NET 15; allows to run and debug .NET Core unit tests. Changes also include new quick-fixes, code generation and context actions, updates in navigation and search, further evolution of TypeScript, JavaScript and JSON support, as well as more ways to inject languages. For details, please see What's New in ReSharper.
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2016.3
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Supported versions of Visual Studio |
Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio 2010 |
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Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio 2012 | |
Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio 2013 | |
Visual Studio 2015 (Updates 1–3) | Visual Studio 2015 (Updates 1–3) | |
Visual Studio 2017 RC | Visual Studio 2017 RC | |
Code analysis |
2200+ code inspections | ~2400 code inspections |
~1020 quick-fixes | ~1200 quick-fixes | |
Language injection: support for regular expressions and HTML | Language injection: support for CSS, JavaScript, JSON; automatic language injections in certain scenarios | |
ReSharper Build |
Build Results window | Build Results window |
ReSharper Build uses Visual Studio's NuGet integration to perform restore | ReSharper Build uses its own implementation of NuGet Restore | |
Build options | Build options: choose when the Build Results window is shown; build can be logged to the Output window or a file | |
Navigation and search |
Find Results window | Find Results window populates asynchronously |
Go to Text | Go to Text supports new formats of content files: .less , .hbs , .coffee , .scss , .dart , .as , .styl |
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Recent Files | Recent Files shows the path to the file and entries can be deleted with the Delete key | |
Recent Edits | Recent Edits shows the path to the file and all edits in the same method are shown as a single entry | |
Go to… navigation actions | All Go to... navigation actions have a setting to remember the last search | |
Structural search and replace | Structural search and replace: string and integer numeric literals can be matched by value | |
Structural navigation | Structural navigation with Tab and Shift+Tab now works in TypeScript, JavaScript and JSON code | |
Go to Implementation | Go to Implementation works for TypeScript types | |
Refactorings, quick-fixes and context actions |
Transform Out Parameters and Extract Class from Parameters refactorings | New Transform Parameters refactoring replaces and improves two existing refactorings |
Encapsulate Field refactoring: supported in C# and VB.NET | Encapsulate Field refactoring: added support for TypeScript | |
350+ context actions | 420+ context actions | |
Quick-fix to introduce fields and auto-properties for one unused parameter at a time | Quick-fix to introduce fields and auto-properties for all unused parameters | |
Surround with type guard quick-fix | Surround with type guard quick-fix to disambiguate unresolved symbols in TypeScript | |
Quick-fix to introduce property for a lazily initialized field | Quick-fix to introduce property for a lazily initialized field | |
Code generation |
Generate relational members | Generate relational members helps overload relational
operators (> , < , ≥ , ≤ )
and/or implement IComparable and IComparable<T> using
selected fields and properties |
Generate relational comparer | Generate relational comparer creates a comparer class derived from Comparer<T>
using selected fields and properties |
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Generate dispose pattern | Generate dispose pattern helps implement
IDisposable with optional nullability checks and destructor for unmanaged
members |
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Generate constructor | Generate constructor adds an option to check parameters for null |
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Coding assistance |
C# typing assistants | New C# typing assistant for interpolated string literals |
Indenting of nested for , foreach , while , lock statements |
Indenting of nested for , foreach , while , lock statements is disabled by default |
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Code completion | Code completion for TypeScript literal types and a number of formatting fixes for JSX/TSX files | |
Unit testing |
xUnit and NUnit tests in ASP.NET Core and .NET Core projects | xUnit and NUnit tests in ASP.NET Core and .NET Core 1.0.x projects in Visual Studio 2015 |
ReSharper Options |
Context Actions page for each language | A common Context Actions page for all languages |
Inspection Severity page | Inspection Severity page is redesigned to incorporate more languages | |
Language Injections page | Language Injections page: the list of automatic language injections with options to disable them | |
Third-Party Code page | Third-Party Code page: JavaScript, TypeScript or JSON files can be marked by name, file mask or entire folder as "skipped" or "library" | |
ReSharper tool windows |
Assembly Explorer | Assembly Explorer: assemblies can be loaded directly from nuget.org or a different NuGet package source |
To-do Explorer | To-do Explorer: colored categories for to-do patterns; colors can be configured in Visual Studio’s Fonts and Colors options page | |
Stack Trace Explorer | Stack Trace Explorer: auto-open mode to copy external stack traces faster | |
Supported languages and technologies |
C#: up to version 6.0 | C#: early support for version 7.0, including binary literals, digit separators, local functions, out variables, pattern-matching in is-expressions and switch cases |
VB.NET: up to version 14 | VB.NET: up to version 15 with support for binary literals and digit separators | |
ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC) | ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC) | |
ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core 1.0.x | |
XAML | XAML | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
Node.js | Node.js | |
JSON | JSON: dynamic completion of package names in project configuration files (project.json, package.json and bower.json) | |
TypeScript: up to version 2.0.0 | TypeScript: up to version 2.0.2 | |
XML | XML | |
HTML | HTML: entities are highlighted for better readability | |
CSS | CSS | |
Build scripts | Build scripts | |
Google Protocol Buffers | Google Protocol Buffers | |
Miscellaneous |
Feature suggestions | Feature suggestions: ReSharper shows a pop-up window with a tip in case you don’t use one of its basic features |