The Shortcuts options page is an important and one of the most often used options pages. It allows you to create, modify and remove shortcut bindings for all IDE Tools products (CodeRush, DXCore, Refactor!). The page is located at the IDE | Shortcuts path in the CodeRush Options Dialog. Here is what it looks like:
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This is the third and the latest part of a topic about adding an options page into your DXCore plug-in. See the other parts, to learn more:
- Adding and designing an options page
- Implementing the options page settings storing logic
- Using settings from an options page inside a plug-in (this post)
In this post, we are going to read plug-in settings from the decoupled storage and update them when they are changed on the options page.
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Here’s the second part of the post about adding an options page into your DXCore plug-in. See the other parts, to learn more:
- Adding and designing an options page
- Implementing the options page settings storing logic (this post)
- Using settings from an options page inside a plug-in
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This topic is about adding a DXCore Options page. It has three parts to make it easier to read and follow:
- Adding and designing an options page (this post)
- Implementing the options page settings storing logic
- Using settings from an options page inside a plug-in
Here’s the first part of the topic, and the steps we need to accomplish, to add an options page to your plug-in, and make it work:
- Run the options page wizard
- Layout controls on the page
- Add runtime behavior code for controls, if necessary
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You can add custom user-friendly option pages that will automatically be integrated into the IDETools Options Dialog. If your DXCore plug-in has any kind of user-configuration, the options page will allow you and other developers easily customize the features of your plug-in.
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Some people are asking how the Language combobox is populated in the Options Dialog. Once you have installed IDE tools and open the Options Dialog, you will see that the Language combobox is empty. But after some work in Visual Studio IDE this combobox is being populated with items. So, when and how is it populated?

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It can be easily accomplished from the “Shortcuts” options page in the Options Dialog. Follow these steps to get to the Shortcuts options page:
1. From the DevExpress menu, select Options…
2. In the tree view on the left, navigate to this folder: IDE.
3. Select the Shortcuts options page.
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Most of the aspects of the IDE tools (CodeRush and/or Refactor!) functionality can be customized using the Options dialog, which can be accessed via the DevExpress | Options… menu item in your IDE. You can also use the CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+O shortcut.
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