Templates - Rory Becker - DevExpress CodeRush Blog

So we’ve proved that CodeRush has the fastest .Net Test runner . Next up I’m going to show you that CodeRush is also the quickest way to write tests. Note: For the purposes of this post I’m going to assume that you’ve enabled Templates, and that you are...

Posted Oct 19 2016, 01:20 AM by Rory Becker (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Templates, Testing

CodeRush – Feature Spotlight – Convert to Function

Assuming you want to create a new function, there are a few ways you could build it. For now let’s focus on the function’s return type… Type First In this case, you know the type of the value which your function will return. You have decided that you...

Posted Jul 15 2014, 12:09 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with no comments

Filed under: CodeRush, CodeProvider, Templates

New CodeRush Plugin Template - NewMetric

Note: The template referred to by this post does not ship with CodeRush. To install it, see instructions towards the end of the post. What is a Metric A metric is a measurement of some quality of your code. In this case it is a per-method measurement...

Posted Mar 17 2014, 02:31 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with no comments

Filed under: CodeRush, Plugin, Templates, Metric

New CodeRush Plugin Templates – NewCodeProvider and NewRefactoring

Note: The templates referred to by this post do not ship with CodeRush. To install them, see instructions towards the end of the post. This post describes two more templates in my Plugin Templates series. The series itself is introduced in my previous...

Posted Mar 04 2014, 05:13 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: CodeRush, Plugin, Community, Templates

New CodeRush Plugin - Template Importer

I was rereading my previous post New CodeRush Plugin Template – NewAction In it I asked you to …. Visit a page on github. Locate an XML file. Download that file. …and finally Import the file. However it occurs to me that this is rather lengthy and awkward...

Posted Mar 03 2014, 12:46 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: CodeRush, Plugin, Templates

So you want to write a CodeRush plugin

You have a simple idea for a CodeRush plugin. An Action you’d like to trigger from your IDE. A Refactoring or a CodeProvider you’d like to add. A new Context which you could use to fine tune the availability of your templates. A StringProvider , a TextCommand...

Posted Feb 18 2014, 10:36 AM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with no comments

Filed under: CodeRush, Templates, Plugins

TemplateExpand with CollapsedRegions – How does it work?

Disclaimer (Yes again) Yup, some people still don’t like regions. If that’s you, then you might not be that interested in how a region-appreciative plugin works. We’re not here to discuss if they’re good or bad. We’re here to show you how the plugin from...

Posted Jan 24 2014, 12:07 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with no comments

Filed under: CodeRush, Plugin, Templates, Command, HowTo

New CodeRush Plugin – TemplateExpandWithCollapsedRegions

Disclaimer Yes I know. Regions are bad. Regions are awful. Regions should be shot repeatedly until dead. Try to bear in mind that not everyone views everything the same way, and openness to alternatives is a good thing. For the purposes of this blog post...

Posted Jan 22 2014, 04:02 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: CodeRush, Plugin, Templates, Command

How to generate a Simple ToString() implementation with CodeRush templates

A customer recently asked: Does CodeRush have a quick way to auto-implement ToString()? If it outputted each prop Name & value it would be great. Never one to shirk a challenge, I quickly set about finding the quickest way to allow a user to generate...

Posted Oct 14 2013, 04:11 PM by Rory Becker (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: CodeRush, Templates

New CodeRush Plugin: CR_RefreshTemplate

Background A customer came to me asking about Templates and what could be done with them. The desired use case seemed simple enough: The user types a few characters, hits space and the template expands as usual. The user fills out one piece of information...

Posted Jul 25 2012, 01:10 PM by Rory Becker - DevExpress with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: CodeProvider, Plugin, Code Generation, Templates

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