RAD Studio XE8 Introduces Over 20 New Serious Productivity Features
New coding enhancements include code refactoring, live syntax checking, metrics, structural code highlighting, parenthesis matching, flow control highlighting, and code analysis. It all adds up to a more productive developer and to help better understand team productivity and code quality.
New! Project Statistics provides developers with a clear picture of team productivity with activity tracking.
New! Clipboard History keeps a record of clipboard contents so developers can paste content previously copied.
New! Multi-Paste Support performs the same paste operation on multiple source code lines at once.
New! Modeless and Context-Sensitive Refactoring support which includes: renaming variables, classes, field and properties, inlining, introducing and splitting local variables, removing unused variables, eliminating with statements, extracting methods, adding parameters, and moving classes to a different unit (Object Pascal language only).
New! Stack Bookmarks improves code navigation.
New! Parenthesis Matching provides a visual queue to keep code clear.
New! Flow Control Highlighting provides visual representation of flow jumps in code directly in the editor.
New! Structural Highlighting
New! Code Navigation Toolbar places classes and methods into a drop down box for easy in-code navigation (Object Pascal language only).
New! Smart Keys and Smart Symbol Search (Object Pascal language only)
New! Code Analysis tracks code quality with several code statistics like length parameters, nested statements, and cyclomatic complexity (Object Pascal language only).
