Another CodeRush Feature Workshop ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) has yielded a plugin, and this one is truly awesome. String Formatter works in 3 separate ways to increase your productivity: Tab to Next Reference Extension Tab among references to a string token and variable/expression whose value will replace...

Introducing CR_PrimitiveTab. The result of another CodeRush Feature Workshop This plugin extends Tab to Next Reference , allow you to navigate among references to primitives , of the same value , in the same file . For example: If you place your caret on the number 10 within a code file, and then hit...

Another new refactoring in CodeRush 11.1 is the Use Named Arguments refactoring. This refactoring simply alters a given method call, so that each argument also declares the parameter which it is intended to feed. This can sometimes make it easier to read your code by in-lining the purpose (parameter...

There are 2 Inline Method refactorings introduced in CodeRush 11.1. The first refactoring: “Inline Method” , will simply copy the selected method’s code into each of it’s call sites as if prior to having been extracted from there. The second refactoring “Inline Method (And Delete)” will also remove the...

The new Convert To Tuple refactoring can be applied to 2 or more parameters of a method. As it’s name suggests, it replaces the parameters in question with a suitable Tuple. It further ensures that calls to the method as well, as internal references to the parameters, are updated appropriately.

How many times have you hit Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End (to navigate to the start or end of a file), only to realize mere seconds later, that you forgot to copy something to the clipboard before you left. Now you have to find where you were, copy the code you were after, and then jump back. There are several...

Check out the fun "Meet Rory Becker" video that finally exposes what the real Rory Becker looks like! Watch the video to see my friend Rory talk about: CodeRush evangelism Working with CodeRush devs Working with Mark Miller!?! Mark Miller makes an appearance in the video to discuss the free...

Our previous posts on the New Contexts , the New StringProviders and the New Goto TextCommand in CodeRush 11.1 are obviously useful in their own right, but as hinted at they also come together to contribute to an upgrade to the standard p?Type? template. The p?Type? template now emits any backing fields...

You will recall from our previous discussion, that Navigational TextCommands allow a template author, to inject different pieces of themselves into different parts of the TextDocument. The newest addition to this group of TextCommands is «GoTo». It takes a single parameter (C onstructors, Fields, Methods...

As some of you might recall, several new pieces of functionality have arisen out of our weekly webinars . We have regularly implemented functionality on the spot simply to demonstrate the ease of doing so. This has happened so often that we decided to make a regular webinar dedicated to new features...