DXCore Services – Hints
The Hints DXCore service provides access to hinting services for showing/hiding Shortcut hints, BigFeedback hints, and other discoverability services.
The Hints DXCore service provides access to hinting services for showing/hiding Shortcut hints, BigFeedback hints, and other discoverability services.
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:
The Key DXCore service provides access to keystrokes, key names, and key mapping methods and properties. This service can be used for retrieving shortcuts bound to the specific actions or an entire shortcut binding scheme that you can see on the Shortcuts options page.
CodeRush Unit Test Runner has a set of predefined shortcuts useful for running and debugging unit test cases inside Visual Studio. All shortcuts are easy to remember: they start from a general Ctrl+T keystroke (where T means Testing) followed by a second key which specifies the operation, for example:
If you prefer your code to be wrapped into region directives (#region … #endregion in CSharp, or #Region … #End Region in Visual Basic), the Auto Create Region feature from CodeRush will help. To create a named region around a method, property or event, press “Ctrl+3” key anywhere inside of an active member. This will execute the “RegionAutoCreate” action, which wraps the active member into region directives. The region name will be the same as member’s name and will wrap all attached elements, such as XML doc comments or attributes as well.
The Scope (Visibility) Cycle feature adds the capability to quickly change the visibility modifier of the active member using a single shortcut. In a source code file, if your text caret is anywhere within or on a member (method, function, property, class, etc) definition, you can use the Alt key with the Up and Down arrow keys, to cycle through the legal visibility modifiers:
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.
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. Here it is: