Mark Miller on CodeRush & IDE Productivity

Advanced CodeRush Plug-ins: Converting an Object Initializer into a Constructor

Today Rory Becker and I presented an Advanced CodeRush Plug-ins session, showing how to create CodeProviders and RefactoringProviders. These providers show up on the CodeRush/Refactor menu, like this: The session included several moments where we tasted...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

22 June 2011

New CodeRush Feature: Quick Pair (Parens, Brackets, Quotes, etc.) for Visual Studio

Today was the first CodeRush Feature Wednesday webinar presented by Rory Becker and myself. And for our first feature we decided to implement something I wanted – a better way to enter paired delimiters in code. When entering paired delimiters, there...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

1 June 2011

Get Your CodeRush Training Here

Here’s a summary of CodeRush training videos created so far, to help you find relevant training quickly: 1. Introduction to Features a. Getting Started/Configuration 2. Navigation 3. Working with Selections and the Clipboard 4. Consume-first Declaration...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

4 May 2011

Visual Studio Features Built Instantly for CodeRush Developers

This week Rory and I continue our path-rip through the space time continuum by responding to customer requests yet again with mind-numbing development speed. Earlier today this question appeared on twitter: Joe needs to convert a method call with positional...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

7 April 2011

Importing Namespace References for Extension Methods in CodeRush for Visual Studio

From feature request to binary delivery in less than four hours. Here’s the timeline: At 10:06 this morning, Apeoholic tweets the following question: Is there a way to get #CodeRush to suggest namespace usages for extension methods? Which led to the following...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

23 March 2011

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Creating CodeRush Plug-ins: Actions and Tool Windows

Today Rory and I presented a webinar called Creating CodeRush Plug-ins: Actions and Tool Windows. In it, we created a tool window that displays all Markers dropped throughout all open files. To see how we built this, watch the webinar here , which should...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

22 March 2011

High-speed MVC Development in Visual Studio with CodeRush and DevExpress MVC Extensions

If you saw our Using CodeRush with MVC webinar, Rory and I introduced new templates that make it easy to exploit the MVC Extensions from DevExpress. These templates will likely be integrated into CodeRush 11.1, however you can install and start using...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

18 March 2011

CodeRush

Updating Plug-ins on the Community Site

Update: The content at the community site has been updated, and nearly all the plug-ins there currently build with 10.2. Binary plug-in compatibility across versions of the DXCore is a huge priority for us. For most of our releases, we’ve delivered...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

17 February 2011

WPF & Silverlight Grids – Faster Creation Using CodeRush Templates and a Custom Plug-in

A few days ago a customer asked for a faster way to create WPF and Silverlight grids. Rory Becker and I recorded a video showing how to create this feature in CodeRush. Rory and I discuss and build the feature in about 30 minutes. Here’s the final...

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

6 January 2011

Mads Torgersen on the Future of C# and the New Async Keyword

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mads Torgersen, product manager for the C# language at Microsoft. Mads talks about the new async and await keywords coming in C# 5.0, the criteria behind C# design choices, and C# futures. Enjoy!

Mark Miller (DevExpress)

5 January 2011

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