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Visualization – XML Doc Comments Painter

May 31st, 2011 2 comments

The XML Doc Comments Painter feature of CodeRush Pro paints over XML documentation comments in the code editor, so they are easier to read in a nice-looking form. It visually replaces all XML doc tags and make them hidden, and leave the important information only:

CodeRush XML Doc Comments Painter preview

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CodeRush Clipboard History

December 21st, 2010 Comments off

Clipboard History is a visual multi-clipboard viewer and manager, which makes copying and pasting of data a little easier. It allows you to extend the facility of Windows system’s clipboard, beyond its default capability and the disadvantage that you can only copy once before pasting. The next time you copy or cut another snippet, you overwrite the existing clipboard contents. CodeRush helps to keep the clipboard history that you can use to paste any selected fragment again. You can have up to 64 independent fragments and work with each of them separately, persisting these fragments across Visual Studio sessions for future use. If you copy a code fragment, Clipboard History will maintain its syntax highlighting as well:

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Shared Source – Right Margin Line

September 24th, 2010 Comments off

Good code style suggests limiting the length of a code line to 80 characters, and only 70 characters for indented code examples to be used in documentation. The Right Margin Line helps you to visually indicate the specified line length. It doesn’t prevent typing to the right of it, but lets you to identify and break long expressions over multiple lines.

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Shared Source – Drop Marker Before Jump

September 22nd, 2010 Comments off

The “Drop Marker Before Jump” feature is intended to help you easily navigate back at the source location after the “Go to Definition” Visual Studio command is performed. It drops a marker at the text caret location, before you jump to the definition. After you finish navigation to the definitions, pressing the Esc key will move you back to each location you have visited.

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Shared Source – Comment Painter

September 22nd, 2010 Comments off

The Comment Painter feature draws a bubble icon over the comment “//” symbols in CSharp, or “ ‘ ” (single quote) in Visual Basic. The source code of this feature shows how to paint bitmaps on the code editor. If the comment is active (e.g. text caret is located inside the comment) then no icon is drawn, allowing you edit the comment.

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Shared Source – Collapse to Projects

September 22nd, 2010 2 comments

The “Collapse to Projects” feature is an action from the open source CodeRush plug-ins samples solution that organizes your Solution Explorer when there are too many projects and sub-folders expanded. This feature is built into the Solution Explorer context menu under the last Properties item:

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CodeRush – Shared Source Solution

September 22nd, 2010 Comments off

CodeRush Pro is shipping with a plug-ins sample solution called “Shared Source”. It has several projects with open source plug-ins that are intended for learning plug-ins development using the DXCore framework. This solution is located inside your installation folder, e.g.:

C:\Program Files\DevExpress 2010.1\IDETools\System\CodeRush\SOURCES

You’re welcome to modify and compile the source code as you like.

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