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October is a month for scary holiday fun, and this release of CodeRush makes it easier than ever to shine the light on those frightening parts of your code and fix them! Every month we release an update to CodeRush, with new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. This month’s update includes new additions to Rich Comments, JavaScript/TypeScript support, Refactorings, Formatting, Razor, and more!...

Another sub-30-day sprint, another release. Here’s what’s new in this version of CodeRush for Roslyn : Navigation Drop Marker gets enhanced, gaining the ability to mark and restore selections (in addition to caret positions). Useful when you have the...

In my last post , I showed you around some of the Selection Embeddings that ship with CodeRush.  Like many CodeRush features, Selection Embeddings are user extensible. In this post I’m going to show you around the options for Selection Embedding and how...

Selection Embedding is one of those CodeRush features that doesn’t get a lot of mention, but it is extremely powerful. It provides the user with the ability to wrap some text (code, mark-up, comments) around some existing code already in place. Selection...

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...

Problem 1: Have you ever started writing code, and then realised you were using a Type directly, without importing it’s namespace? You could fix this by either fully qualifying the Type in place, or moving to the top of the file, adding an imports or...

Another CodeRush Feature Workshop ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) has yielded a plugin, and this one is truly awesome. String Formatter works in 3 separate ways to increase your productivity: Tab to Next Reference Extension Tab among references to a string token...

“Is there a way in CodeRush to auto-fill a SELECT CASE statement with the available enumerations ?” I was just asked this question on Twitter and because it was such a reasonable question, I figured I’d share the wealth in a more permanent way by posting...

DX_GenerateProxy Generates a new Proxy class P based on source class S What? What this amounts to is a new class P which is given properties and methods matching the public ones that are possessed by S. When methods or properties of S are called their...

Efficient Coding There are many interpretations to efficient coding, but I’d like to consider just one. I’d like to consider Efficient coding as the act of expressing your solution as efficiently as possible, without sacrificing maintainability. ie I...