CodeRush Tricks of the Trade

Question

I was using CodeRush quite while ago and now I'm planning to use it again. I've installed the trial but I forgot all the cool features except Alt + Home (drop a marker). And when you don't know some cool tricks it's really like burning money (since it's not cheap for personal use).

What do you like about it? What are your best features?

My best feature is marker: Alt + Home (and use escape to go back)

P.S.: Dear Devxpress, if you think I helped you by asking this question I can accept some donations, a free license of CodeRush would be nice!

Currently What I like most

• ps/pi, etc. shortcut to create properties
• cc to create constructors
• pressing tab to navigate between the references
• F12 to find references in new cool window
• Ctrl + Shift + . for recent files
• Ctrl + Shift + Q for jumping to any function / class
• fe/fi for "for loops"

Answer 1

I recently installed the Xpress version and went on a similar hunt. This cheat-sheet is what I found so far. The XPress version is pretty gimped BTW so I'm trying to get funding for a license.

Answer 2

I use these a lot:

• / will comment or uncomment highlighted blocks of code.

• b will wrap a highlighted selection in braces.

• Ctrl + 3 will wrap a selection into a region.

• tc will generate a try/catch block.

• mbs will write a MessageBox.Show(""); and drop the cursor in the quotes.

• cws will do the same but with Console.Writeline.

• m will create a method block (ms would do a method block that returns type string).

• . will make a comment block.

Answer 3

rt / rf = For Return True and False

Answer 4

F2 - Rename

Strictly this is a RefactorPro shortcut as the Rename functionality is for RefactorPro. (However since RefactorPro is included in the Price of Coderush that should not be an issue)

It is also, I think, Disabled by default.

You should be able to use the DevExpress\options...IDE\Shortcuts screen to search for F2 and re-enable it.

Very natural to rename Vars and Methods using F2 when you're already used to F2 functionality for Files and Folders in Explorer.

Answer 5

This is an old post on the DevExpress Coderush Forum:

In it is a setting suggestion by Mark Miller to enhance the default "Embed in Parenthesis" feature of CodeRush.

Once in place ... highlight some text and hit '('. your selection will be wrapped in Parenthesis and more importantly your caret will be on the left of the selection. (Similar applies to the Right Parenthesis)

Ideal for VB.Net users to use alongside CInt, CStr etc

Answer 6

"NumPad+Plus" widens the scope of your selection one level.

Try it. It's sublime :)

Answer 7

Inside VS.NET

Press "Ctrl + Shift + Alt + O" will list all the DX Options (and putting shortcuts in the search box will bring you to the keyboard bindings)

Answer 8

CR_MetricShader: is a free open source plugin for CodeRush or CodeRush Xpress which will allow you to see visually when your method's complexity is getting out of hand.

It alters the background color of your method to indicated severity with respect to your chosen Metric.

Works with the built in metrics of CodeRush (and the hidden ones in CodeRush Xpress) aswell as being compatible with any you might choose to create yourself.

Answer 9

Search for Type

QuickNav (Ctrl+Shift+Q) can be a bit excessive at times....

If you know you're looking for a Type, bind Ctrl+T to QuickNav using additional params of "AllTypes,, AllVisibilities, CurrentSolution" (without quotes)

This will allow you to search for only Types in the current solution

These params can be tweaked to your liking. See http://community.devexpress.com/forums/p/66380/225556.aspx#225556 for details

Answer 10

Search for Member

QuickNav (Ctrl+Shift+Q) can be a bit excessive at times....

If you know you're looking for a Method, bind Ctrl+M to QuickNav using additionial params of "AllTypes, AllMembers, AllVisibilities, CurrentFile" (without quotes)

This will allow you to search for only Members in the current file.

These params can be tweaked to your liking. See http://community.devexpress.com/forums/p/66380/225556.aspx#225556 for details