CodeRush code templates are easy to understand and learn. One of the easiest ways is to dock the CodeRush Training window inside the Visual Studio IDE. This window shows you the available templates for the current context. For example, if the editor caret is inside a namespace, the window will show you the following templates suggestion:
CodeRush code templates allow you to generate large code blocks on the fly with just a few keystrokes. The use of code templates dramatically decreases the code writing time, because it’s not necessary to type the entire block of code manually. The Templates library shipped with CodeRush contain lots of code templates for most code blocks and regular coding structures including regions and comments.
The CodeRush Unit Test Runner has several improvements in the upcoming major update.
You might have already learned that CodeRush suggests several code issues that highlight the switch (Select in VB) statement with hints and warnings when it has suspicious code. For example, when the switch statement handles only a subset of the possible enumeration values it is checking for, this may be a sign of incomplete code.
Until recently, there were no code fixes of those code issues. Now, they appear:
There are two actions added to repeat the last operations:
In addition to the usual Spell Checker CodeRush feature, you can find and review spelling errors from the entire solution in the dedicated Spell Checker tool window:
The Categories support has been already introduced for the Unit Test Runnerin the current CodeRush release. Now, there are two useful actions added for creating specific keyboard shortcuts to run or debug test cases in the specific category:
See other actions and shortcuts for the CodeRush Unit Test Runner.
—– Products: CodeRush Pro Versions: 12.1 and up VS IDEs: 2008 and up Updated: Apr/09/2012 ID: U010The Smart Constructor CodeRush feature allows you to add constructors to the current class or structure, and pass type members, like fields and properties for initialization through its parameters. To choose fields and properties that will be passed to a new constructor, the following dialog is used:
