Mark Miller on CodeRush & IDE Productivity

So you may have noticed, I only use the term “Game Changer” for features that dramatically change and improve the way you work as a developer. The last time I used the term was two years ago, when we introduced the Debug Visualizer for CodeRush . The...

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...

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...

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...

With the 9.1 release of Refactor! Pro, we bring the count a few refactorings closer to 200. This release only adds a small handul of refactorings, but that's okay since a great deal of our focus has been on improving performance and reducing memory usage...

9.1 is out. Here's what's new in CodeRush and Refactor! Pro since 3.2: New Version Number. We are now synchronizing our version numbers and releases with the rest of the DXperience product line. Here's how you can make sense of the version number: Faster...

Welcome to Part 2 of the series showing how to build plug-ins for Visual Studio using DXCore . So far we've: Built the plug-in framework. In today's post we'll spend just a bit of time visualizing the clipboard history feature we want to build and map...

Here's another refactoring we're working on for the 3.2 release, Extract to XAML Template . It moves an inlined control template up to the resource section of the file, which promotes reuse of the template across multiple controls. Between now and the...

This is one of my favorite new refactorings coming up in the 3.2 release of Refactor! Pro. It's called Extract Method to Type , and it allows you to extract a block of code from one class to another class better suited to host the code block. Here's a...

A while back I talked about calculating return on investment for developer tools. That post brought in great comments pointing out limitations in a few assumptions made, including: Some shops average more than eight hour days or five day weeks. Many devs...