Update: You can watch the CodeRush 101 video on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2 Check out this CodeRush 101 video that shows you the basics of CodeRush after installing it for the first time. In the video, Rory Becker and I cover CodeRush’s: Welcome window Training window ‘What Happened?’ popup dialog Graphical...

Do you remember the challenge Mark Miller laid down for this year’s PDC conference? Yes, that insane challenge where he would use an XBOX guitar and no keyboard! Check out this video of Mark Miller at PDC 2009 as he took on all kinds of challengers: I was expecting many more winners since Mark had crippled...

I've been futzing around recently trying to get a grip on LINQ to XML for an internal project. Yeah, I know, everyone else has moved on having solved that particular problem a couple of years ago, but for some reason, although I understood the concepts and the infrastructure behind LINQ, I'd...

I know a lot of our CodeRush customers are anxiously awaiting news about CodeRush and Refactor! Pro for Visual Studio 2010. Rest assured we are working on it but, because of the major differences in the editor, the task is major. Now we could make it easier by just targeting Visual Studio 2010 but, as...

Check out this 8 minute Mark Miller video interview where he discusses: How he got an Xbox Guitar working with Visual Studio The coding challenge at the DevExpress booth during Microsoft’s PDC 2009 Click the image below and watch the video to learn why I’m so excited to see this in action...

Since the beginning, CodeRush has been extensible. The cardinal rule for extensible architectures: New revs of the framework can’t break existing plug-ins. Through each release the IDE Tools team responsible for CodeRush has strived to ensure backward and forward compatibility for 3rd-party plug...

I'm deep in code and surfacing briefly only to mention this DNR TV session I recorded with Carl Franklin. The session gives you a taste of how to create language-independent intelligent code generators inside Visual Studio that work with CodeRush or CodeRush Xpress. For anyone who prefers watching...

Unit testing support is one of the most requested features for CodeRush and Mark Miller and his IDE team are hard at work on it right now. They've made great progress so I'm able to share a sneak peek with you today. Mark wanted me to make it clear that this "Test Runner" sneak peek...

A moment ago, I was writing some code that configured a chart and I thought it would be good to quickly post what I was doing, not because it was especially difficult XtraCharts code, but it illustrated a refactoring technique that not many people know. The code I'd written added two horizontal constant...

The IDE Tools team has been spending a great deal of time making CodeRush and Refactor! Pro run even faster and with less memory. With every release since 3.2.3, customers have noticed improvements in speed. And it's no different for CodeRush 9.2, expected later this quarter. Performance Our primary...