DevExpress CodeRush Tips&Tricks

Now, the CodeRush Click Identifier feature can show you not only the signature of a member but its source code, if any:

This might be useful to quickly analyze the functional algorithm of the referenced member without navigating to it.

Note that this is an optional behavior – you may toggle its availability on the Editor | Navigation | Click Identifier options page in the CodeRush Options Dialog.

The Create Descendant and Create Descendant (with virtual overrides) CodeRush code providers are now available not only on the type declaration but on any reference to a type inside source code, for example:

It allows to create derived classes without navigating to the declaration of the ancestor class.

An options page for type declarations positioning has been introduced. You can change the target position for classes, structures and interfaces created by CodeRush code generation code providers:

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Starting with the next minor update v2011 vol2.8, the “Jump to” CodeRush navigation menu is reorganized. Before, there was too much noise with the bunch of rarely-used navigation providers:

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Starting with the next minor update v2011 vol2.8, there’s a new navigation provider available: Jump to Type Instantiations.

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Starting with the next minor update v2011 vol2.8, the Unit Test Runner supports injection of environment variables for 3rd-party tools. Third-party tools may require providing the CodeRush Unit Test Runner with some environment variables for proper execution when launching the Test Runner process.

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