DevExpress CodeRush Tips&Tricks

Element Highlighting visualization feature paints identifiers inside source code in a different color according to your preference. It can paint the following elements:

• classes
• structures
• interfaces
• enumerations
• methods
• properties
• fields
• events
• anonymous elements

Compare these two views of a source code with the disabled feature on the left side, and enabled feature on the right (click on the picture to see it in a full size):

By default, the Element Highlighting feature is disabled. You can enable it on the DXCore Visualize toolbar:

You can also enable the feature within the “Editor | Painting | Element Highlighting” options page in the Options Dialog:

Here, you can also specify the following settings:

• Turn on or off each painted element
• Make the font bold
• Color of a text
• Color of a text background
• Color of a border
• The style of a border: None, Frame, Round frame, Solid underline or Wavy underline

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