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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...

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...

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...

Did we suddenly employ Rory Becker and no one told me? He's done a great write-up on his blog about CodeRush and Refactor! Pro v2009.1, beating out our own. So, head on over there and read all about the new features in our IDE productivity tools while...

When we entered CodeRush (with Refactor! Pro ) to the Jolt Awards this year, we weren't very hopeful. In fact, I'll admit it took us some effort to be enthusiastic and prepare for the entry. Not that we're indifferent about our IDE Tools -- hardly that...

...to get Mark and the IDE team to make things simpler. It seems we have had some concerns from certain unnamed customers about being immediately productive with CodeRush and Refactor! Pro in Visual Studio 2008. I understand. It's new and all that. There...

Mark sent me this link of a customer using CodeRush and Refactor! Pro to write an MVP (Model-View-Presenter) implementation of an e-mail viewer. It's a long-ish screencast -- there's a lot of code and classes to cover -- but the presenter, Kim Major of...

You know, it's funny. I can well remember the day I saw my first syntax-highlighted code in an IDE. It looked a little weird compared to the flat Notepad look of yester-editors, but, from that point on, non- syntax-highlighted code just became harder...

OK, this is strictly hush hush, on a need-to-know basis. Don't tell everyone, but we've just uploaded CodeRush and Refactor! Pro 2.5 to the Client Center. Yep, it's a significant new release , deserving of the bump in version number. We've got the world...

There was a knock on the door late at night a week or so ago, but when I opened it I saw nothing but flurries of snow whisking into the porch light and away into the darkness and an envelope propped up against the door jamb. No one was around. I ripped...