Mark Miller on CodeRush & IDE Productivity

Is there a Roslyn-based CodeRush in your Future?

At this year’s //build/ conference, Microsoft announced the open-sourcing of Roslyn, their .NET compiler for the next version of Visual Studio. Roslyn supports code analysis and code generation for C# and VB.NET languages. CodeRush customers have enjoyed...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

16 April 2014

New in CodeRush 13.2: Unit Test Builder

Here’s a new feature that will help you generate test cases as you’re stepping through code. You know the scenario – you’re debugging and find a problem caused by the data passed in or the state of the software. You might want to continue stepping through...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

4 December 2013

13.2

Customer Request: Insert a Method’s Parameters into a Template Expansion

The Question This conversation popped up on Twitter: The customer wants a list of parameters inserted into a CodeRush Template. CodeRush Templates are like Visual Studio code snippets on steroids. My first thought: “We might have this. Let me check.”...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

14 November 2013

CodeRush Shortcut Keys

An updated CodeRush shortcut cheat sheet (in pdf format) is available, including new default shortcuts for debugging: If you need the original source (for example, you want to modify shortcuts and print out your new version) in PowerPoint...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

1 October 2013

Getting Started with CodeRush webinar

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 Paul Usher and I will walk you through quickly setting up and enjoying the benefits of CodeRush. We’ll start with a fresh install with default settings, and show how to customize the environment. We’ll also provide an introduction...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

23 September 2013

CodeRush 13.1 - Enhancements to the Visual Studio Debugging Experience

With the release of CodeRush 13.1, we have made several significant enhancements to improve the Visual Studio debugging experience, shedding more light on some of the more challenging-to-discern aspects of debugging. XAML Bindings in Silverlight 5 Now...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

12 June 2013

New XAML features in CodeRush 13.1 for Visual Studio

CodeRush 13.1 includes a number of new features to make working with XAML easier. Navigation Support The Declaration navigation provider is available in XAML code now. You can use it to navigate to: Control declarations Types Properties Resource keys...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

7 June 2013

Here’s Your Game Changer: Debug Visualizer in CodeRush for Visual Studio

One of the goals of team CodeRush is to release something revolutionary, something with the power to change the way developers work, at least once a year. CodeRush 11.2 was the first tool on any platform to offer duplicate code consolidation . This year...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

3 December 2012

Consolidating Duplicate Code in Visual Studio – Easy with CodeRush

On Twitter last week a developer mentioned a competing developer tool, inferring its clone detection and consolidation abilities were similar to what we were already shipping with CodeRush. Skeptical (I had looked into this tool once before months ago...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

9 May 2012

Duplicate Detection and Consolidation in CodeRush for Visual Studio

CodeRush 11.2 introduces a new feature we’re very excited about. It’s called Duplicate Detection and Consolidation (DDC) and it’s revolutionary. Background Duplicate code, sometimes referred to as clones, is a cluster of code blocks that are functionally...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

29 November 2011

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