DevExpress CodeRush Tips&Tricks

The Duplicate Line CodeRush feature intelligently creates a copy of an existing line of code, allowing you to easily modify it. If the code line is recognized as a predefined pattern, the line is copied and a portion of it is selected for further modification. Note that some code line bits can be modified automatically for you as well.

The predefined duplication patterns are configurable. They are stored and presented as regular expressions that contain one or several DXCore built-in reg-ex aliases for easy understanding. If the line doesn’t match any of the existing patterns – nothing happens, by default. However, there an option to copy-paste the entire line of the text if no matches are found when the feature is performed. All available options are listed later.

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The 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. Creating a constructor is as simple as just typing three keys: “cc & Space”:

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Let’s talk about two similar features – the Smart Parentheses (also known as Smart Parens) and Smart Brackets. These two features allow you to easily type parens and brackets without having to close them with the corresponding closing paren or bracket, because they will be inserted automatically.

In this article the ‘paren’ means the opening or closing parenthesis ‘(‘ or ‘)’, and the bracket means the ‘[‘ (opening) and ‘]’ (closing) characters.

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