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CodeRush Smart Tags Catalog options page

June 13th, 2012 Comments off

The Smart Tags Catalog options page shows registered Smart Tags providers and allows you to control their appearance in the code editor context menu and CodeRush Popup menu.

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CodeRush/IDE Tools system requirements

May 30th, 2012 Comments off

This is another frequent question from new CodeRush users, which is not exactly specified anywhere yet because CodeRush does not really rely on hardware or software requirements – it should run OK everywhere your Visual Studio is installed.

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How to adjust the font size in the CodeRush window

May 30th, 2012 Comments off

One of the common CodeRush questions coming from new users is how to adjust the font size in the CodeRush Training window.

The tool window uses the standard WebBrowser component to display its data, which applies the built-in Internet Explorer settings.

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Troubleshooting the DXCore/CodeRush plug-in loading

May 15th, 2012 2 comments

Sometimes CodeRush/DXCore plug-ins may not be loaded correctly. Here is a brief instruction if you’d like to investigate and fix the loading of the plug-in in question.

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How to speed up the issue investigation time and help to eliminate complex problems

May 15th, 2012 Comments off

If you ran into an unusual problem, you may greatly help the DevExpress Support Team in investigating the issue by providing as much information as possible. Having this information will increase the chances and the speed that the issue will be fixed. Once the issue is fixed, you are always welcome to request a daily build containing the fix from the Support Team.

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Changing global identifiers style in CodeRush

May 14th, 2012 Comments off

Identifiers are names of various program elements in the code that uniquely identify a code element like namespace, class, interface, method, variable and others.

There are numerous identifiers style conventions which include usge of the Pascal or camel casing, use of underscore as a prefix, etc. That is why CodeRush allows you to configure the identifier style that will be globally applied for all features that create or generate new code: refactorings, code providers, code templates and others.

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Three CodeRush Unit Test Runner improvements

April 23rd, 2012 Comments off

The CodeRush Unit Test Runner has several improvements in the upcoming major update.

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Code fixes for code issues for switch (select) statements

April 23rd, 2012 Comments off

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:

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