Differences between CodeRush Pro and CodeRush Xpress
Let’s compare the feature sets of the free CodeRush Xpress version and full CodeRush Pro version bundled with Refactor! Pro. Remember, that CodeRush Xpress is completely free to all Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 C# and Visual Basic developers. Its features are listed on the appropriate page.
The table below is almost a full list of features these two products provide. The comparison is made in the following areas:
- Code Analysis
- Code Generation
- Coding Helpers
- Code Providers
- Navigation
- Selection
- Visualization
- Clipboard Tools
- Testing Tools
- Refactorings
Some feature lists are shortened to reduce the size of the table. For example, CodeRush Pro includes over 120+ code issues but CodeRush Xpress has none of them. So the full list is not published, however, you can see the lists by clicking the appropriate links that follow to other posts with additional information.
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| Code Analysis | A background static analysis and code issues technology for your source code with over 125+ code issues providing suggestions and errors with instant code fixes. |  |
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| The ultimate Duplicate Detection and Consolidation feature for finding and eliminating code duplications. | |
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| Code Generation | Code Templates technology. Code templates are like Visual Studio’s code snippets on steroids. They’re extensible, more powerful, easier to use, and include their own editor. | |
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| Smart Constructor | |
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| Over 20 code providers specially dedicated for the consume-first code declaration. | |
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| Coding Helpers | Duplicate Line | |
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| Intellassist | |
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| Member Mover | |
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| Member Organizer | |
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| Scope Cycle | |
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| Smart Enter | |
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| Smart Parentheses | |
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| Smart Brackets | |
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| Code Providers | More than 30 additional code providers for different code changing tasks. | (partially) | |
| Navigation | Markers | (partially) | |
| Bookmarks | |
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| Camel Case Navigation | |
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| Click Identifier | |
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| Navigation Providers | |
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| Tab to Next Reference | |
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| Highlight All References | |
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| Quick Navigation | |
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| Quick File Navigation | |
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| References | |
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| Expression Focus | |
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| Navigation Through Logical Blocks | |
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| Open Files | |
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| Recent Files | |
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| Step Into Member | |
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| Table Size UI | |
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| Selection | Camel Case Select | |
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| Quick Comment/Uncomment | |
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| Selection Increase/Reduce | |
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| Selection Embedding | |
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| Selection Inversion | |
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| Visualization | Comment Painter | |
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| Comment Highlighter | |
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| Element Highlighting | |
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| Flow Break Evaluation | |
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| Line Highlighter | |
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| Member Icons | |
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| Region Painting | |
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| Right Margin Line | |
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| Show Color | |
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| Show Metrics | |
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| Spell Checker | |
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| Structural Highlighting | |
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| Xml Doc Comments Painter | |
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Clipboard Tools |
Smart Cut/Copy | |
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| Intelligent Paste | |
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| Paste Replace | |
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| Clipboard History | |
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| Testing Tools | The fastest Unit Test Runner executes your unit tests, navigates through tests, and facilitates processing test results. Supports the most known testing frameworks, such as NUnit, MbUnit, VS Testing, Silverlight Testing, xUnit and others. | |
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| Refactorings | See the full comparison table of the refactorings shipped in different products. The columns to the right show the number of refactorings shipped with the product. | 58 | 200+ |
| Code Metrics Window | |
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Another difference between CodeRush Pro and CodeRush Xpress is in the number of supporting programming languages. CodeRush Xpress supports only CSharp and Visual Basic, while CodeRush Pro supports many more languages.
Also, CodeRush Pro ships with additional Shared Source solution, which has several projects with open source plug-ins that are intended for learning plug-ins development using the DXCore framework.
—– Products: CodeRush Pro, CodeRush Xpress Versions: 12.1 and up VS IDEs: 2008 and up Updated: Oct/12/2012 ID: C013