ReSharper 4.5 provides significantly more robust code analysis, coding assistance, navigation, refactoring, code cleanup, and unit testing support compared to the base Visual Studio 2008 IDE. It offers over 750 code inspections and 550 quick fixes to resolve errors, 35 solution-wide refactorings compared to just 7 in Visual Studio, and integrates support for multiple unit testing frameworks like NUnit, MbUnit, and xUnit.net.

1. ReSharper 4.5 vs Plain Visual Studio 2008
Feature Visual Studio 2008 ReSharper 4.5
Code Analysis
Onthefly error highlighting
Solutionwide error highlighting
Solutionwide warnings and suggestions
Possible NullReferenceException analysis
Code inspections ~750
Quickfixes to resolve errors ~550
Annotated .NET Framework classes
Namespace import popup
Coding Assistance
Code completion
Smart completion (contextdriven)
Import symbol completion
(completes types and extension methods from entire solution)
Code snippets (templates)
Generate file from template
Generate type members
Complete statement
Rearrange code
Navigation & Search
Go to declaration
Go to base type
Go to inheritor
Find references
Go to reference
Highlight references
Go to type
Go to file
Go to symbol
View recent files
View recent edits
Type hierarchy
File structure (1
Todo browser (solutionwide)
Stack trace explorer
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2. ReSharper 4.5 vs Plain Visual Studio 2008
Feature Visual Studio 2008 ReSharper 4.5
Refactorings
Solutionwide refactorings 7 35
Context actions 158
Code Cleanup
Optimize using directives
Remove code redundancies
Organize type members
Reformat code
Code cleanup: performs all cleanup tasks in one go
Unit Testing
NUnit support
MbUnit support (2
xUnit.net support (3
MSTest support
Unit test explorer
Multiple unit test sessions
Profiler integration
1
Available via Source Code Outliner power toy
2
Available via Gallio plugin
3
Available via xUnit.Net
Legend
– Unsupported
– Supported
– Better support
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