Text Expansions DXCore service provides methods and properties for expanding dynamic text containing encoded text commands and/or string providers. CodeRush Templates is an example of such a feature. Note that the service is hidden from Intellisense.
One of the most important methods is “Insert” (with various overloads), which allows you to expand the text you prepared. All Insert methods return the SourceRange of the expanded text. For example, when you expand the “ai” template in CSharp (to create a new auto-implemented property), the following text is being expanded:
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Linked Identifiers are a built-in feature of DXCore, which allows you to simultaneously change similar pieces of the text (code) located in different places. The service provides access to the Linked Identifiers engine.
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The Project service has a pretty short list of functions. This service is intended to manipulate projects of an active solution, and provides access to the start-up project, active project, and count of opened projects. All methods and properties work with an instance of the DevExpress.CodeRush.Core.Project type.
Methods of this service:
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Name
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Description
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| GetEnumerator |
Returns enumerator of all projects in the active solution. |
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The BigHint service provides methods for manipulating of big hints, such as creating new ones and showing at the specified position.
The following methods are available:
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The ThirdPartyExtensions service provides methods to check whether or not specified Visual Studio 2010 extensions are installed and/or enabled. This service also contains a few useful properties for the Microsoft Power Tools extension.
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The ActionHint service provides methods for manipulating of action hints and tweaking its settings for the current Visual Studio session.
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The History service is dedicated for storing a few core feature history items for the current Visual Studio session. At the moment, it stores the history for selected text commands, string providers and regex aliases, which you can choose from the Select Dialog inside the Options Dialog:
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The XPO service is dedicated for the eXpress Persistent Object object-relational mapping tool from DevExpress. At the moment, it contains only a single method IsPersistent(TypeDeclaration type), which returns true if the passed type has a Persistent attribute and/or descends from XPObject, XPBaseObject or XPCustomObject, and the class does not include a NonPersistent attribute.
In the future this service is going to be extended with additional useful methods and properties.
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Products: DXCore
Versions: 10.1 and up
VS IDEs: any
Updated: Nov/11/2010
ID: D032