DXCore Services – Text Views
The TextViews DXCore service provides methods and properties for text view manipulation. A text view is a window in Visual Studio IDE that lets you type, edit and view source code text.
The TextViews DXCore service provides methods and properties for text view manipulation. A text view is a window in Visual Studio IDE that lets you type, edit and view source code text.
The Strings DXCore service manipulates DXCore string providers. It has methods that expand and format string providers for further expansion inside the code editor using the DXCore plug-ins.
The Code Style DXCore service provides methods and properties that specify user code style formatting settings, such as: prefixes and suffixes of locals, fields, properties and other declarations, a default visibility scope for types, members and others.
The Documents DXCore service provides an API to control opening and closing documents inside the Visual Studio IDE. You can insert, remove and change any text at the specified coordinates of the given documents.
The EditPoints DXCore service provides methods for creating edit points. Edit points allow you to manipulate text as data in text buffers. The service is hidden from Intellisense, and it contains only different overloads of the New method to create edit points, such as:
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The Caret DXCore service provides methods and properties for the code editor text caret (cursor). It allows you to move, hide, show the caret and execute many text operations, such as text insertion, deletion, and retrieving for the current caret position.
The Selection DXCore service provides methods for manipulating the selected text in the code editor.
Let’s compare the benefit of the CodeRush Unit Testing Service against the native Visual Studio unit testing support as an example. The first things that may catch your attention are test icons near test methods, test fixtures and namespaces containing test cases: