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Tips for getting up to speed with CodeRush and Refactor! Pro

Just posted 16 tips for getting up to speed with CodeRush and Refactor! Pro, over at my professional blog. ...

Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas are in the Bag

Dustin has wrapped up his excellent Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas series highlighting refactorings that work with advanced language features in Visual Studio 2008 right now. One of the things I ...

I Blinked Again! Dustin's on Day Nine!

Dustin is on day nine of his 12-day series on Refactor! Pro's shipping support for the new language features in Visual Studio 2008, namely C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0. On day six Dustin showed C...

Breaking the 150-refactoring Barrier in 2007 -- Refactor! Pro 3.0 Ships

Refactor! Pro3.0 is now shipping with150 refactorings. That's not a typo. Developer Express just shattered the 150-refactoring barrier, doubling your refactoring power in the span of a single year....

Holy Crap, Dustin's on Day Six!

So I must have been in some kind of egg nog induced coma or something.... I just checked out Dustin's Blog, and holy crap! He's already on Day Six of his Twelve Days of Refactor! X-Mas series! And w...

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Refactorings

Dear Santa Claus, I know I'm writing this letter a bit late, but Santa, I want to ask you for two new refactorings,so we can ship 150 in 2007. I realize chances are good that I'm still on Nice Lis...

Giving up on Shipping 125 Refactorings in 2007? Part II

So, if you've even been paying attention, you know that almost one year ago, on 27 December 2006, I made a new year's resolution to ship 100 refactorings in 2007. Back then, we had an impressive 75 r...

Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas -- Day Three!

Holy crap, I blinked, and check it out -- Dustin is already up to DAY THREE of his Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas! If you missed yesterday's post, Dustin showed MakeExplicit, and he started off the s...

Twelve Days of Refactor! -- Day One

Today Dustin starts hisTwelve Days of Refactor! series. Each day for the next twelve days, Dustin will write about one of the many refactorings in Refactor! Pro that works with the new language featu...

Creating Custom Embeddings with CodeRush

Miha Markic (C# MVP) has a nice post showing how to create custom embeddings with CodeRush (Miha shows how he created a custom embedding to surround asp.net elements with an HTMLtable). Miha even sho...

CodeRush 3.0 and Refactor! Pro 3.0 in motion

Here's a video of new UI features in CodeRush 3.0 and Refactor! Pro 3.0, including refactorings that work with query expressions in C# 3.0 ...

Tips for Immediately Using CodeRush and Refactor! Pro in Visual Studio 2008

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2008, some developers have noticed thatat least onethird-partytoolhas fallen woefully behind in delivering support for new language features in C# 3.0 and VB ...

Test Bot Kicking Ass

So, we had this crazy idea a few weeks ago to help us catch edge-case issues in Refactor! Pro. Now, I should first mention that the IDE Tools team has created around 20,000 test cases (with roughly...

Behold the Awesome Staying Power of my Giant, Throbbing, MVP-ness

I just wanted to let everyone know that, no-doubt due to obvious clerical error, my MVP status with a certain company has been renewed for yet another year. Amazing, I know. Regardless, I do want t...

New Templates for WCF Development

Brian Noyes has a new blog entry describing the new WCF templates in the 2.5.4 release of CodeRush. If you work in WCF and like to modify the config files by hand, these templates will save loads of ...

So how fast can you go? Mastering the art of CodeRush

I just finished watching a video made by Kim Major. Kim works for Renaissance Computer Systems, and he's also a Developer Express customer.   I was pretty thrilled to see him exploit the...

My Last VSLive Session Ever?

Well, it's not something I'm proud of so you'll rarely hear me discuss it publicly, but I've been blacklisted from speaking at more than my fair share of conferences over the years (sometimes for off...

One of my Favorite Refactorings -- Decompose Parameter

We introduced the Decompose Parameter refactoring last quarter in Refactor! Pro 2.2, and I gotta tell you, I'm exploiting this refactoring more and more each dayand finding it really useful. What's ...

Invoking Visual Studio's Intellisense Automatically on Paste

I'm passing several coordinates into a method call, and they all start with the same identifier. So I have something like this on the clipboard: mySpan. Notice the dot at the end. This allows me to p...

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