The Selection Inversion Extension DXCore component adds a custom intelligent selection inversion provider used by the CodeRush Selection Inversion feature.
You can drop the SeletionInversionExtension control onto your plug-in design surface from the “DXCore: Extensions & Providers” category of the Visual Studio Toolbox:
The Invert Selection code provider is used to apply the Selection Inversion feature of CodeRush. Once you select a block of text and there is a match with one of the predefined inversion items, the provider becomes available:
The Inversion options page allows you to add, modify or remove inversion regular expressions that participate in the Selection Inversion feature of CodeRush. Here is what it looks like:
The Selection Inversion feature of CodeRush Pro allows you to invert the selected code block to the essential opposite. For example, it can invert assignments so its expression assigns the left side; for loops, so they are iterated in a different order; type cast expression, so an ‘as’ operator expression is converted into an explicit typecast, etc.
In this topic we are going to extend the CodeRush Intellassist feature using the DXCore IntellassistExtension component. A sample extension will suggest all possible variable names of a local declaration based on its entered type in C# language.
The Intellassist Extension DXCore component participates in the CodeRush Intellassist feature and provides custom intelligent suggestions based on the current context.
You can drop the IntellassistExtension control onto your plug-in design surface from the “DXCore: Extensions & Providers” category of Visual Studio Toolbox:
Intellassist feature of CodeRush has two options pages in the Options Dialog. Both of them configure this auto-complete feature and its extensions.
The Instellassist feature of DevExpress CodeRush Pro is similar to the built-in Intellisence feature of Visual Studio. It provides additional hints that pop up as you type the code and completes the edited code with an in-scope identifier or other suggestions. These hints help you select code elements or complete the text you need in the context of what you are working on without retyping the entire text.