Advanced Selection Tools
Select and radically manipulate code efficiently with CodeRush by DevExpress.
Selection Increase
CodeRush's Increase Selection feature is a powerful way to quickly select the code you want to modify.
This feature increases the active selection by logical code blocks.
Simply press Num + or Ctrl+W and the selection increases logically.
If you overshoot your target selection, you can reduce the selection using Num - or Ctrl+Shift+W.
Selection Commenting
CodeRush enables you to comment multiple lines with a single keystroke. To comment out a part of code, select the desired code lines and
press Slash (/) in C# / C++, or Apostrophe (') in VB, or you can use the appropriate button on the DevExpress toolbar.
They same keys can be used to uncomment the current selection.
Selection Inversion
Selection inversions take an existing selection and replace it with code that is essentially the opposite of the original. You can use Selection Inversion to swap assignment statements,
invert the logic in Boolean assignments to true or false, change the iteration direction on for-loops, and more.
Camel Case Selection
Camel Case Selection increases selection up to the next upper-case letter, or reduces it down to the previous upper-case letter.
Press ALT+SHIFT and left or right arrow to activate the feature.
Selection Embedding
When coding you often need to embed an existing code part to an appropriate block. With CodeRush, you can use the Embed Selection code provider as well as the appropriate shortcut to apply a certain embedding. Note that you can do much more with the CodeRush embedding engine than simply add text around a selection. Embeddings can add linked identifiers, drop markers, modify text inside the selection, etc.
The following embeddings are available:
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| try..catch |
Embeds the selection into the try..catch code block.
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| try..finally |
Embeds the selection into the try..finally code block.
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| try..catch/finally |
Embeds the selection into the try..catch/finally code block.
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| #region..#endregion |
Embeds the selection between the #region and #endregion directives.
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| #if..#endif |
Embeds the selection between the #if and #endif directives.
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| while() |
Embeds the selection into the while() code block.
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| do..while() |
Embeds the selection into the do..while() code block.
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| using() |
Embeds the selection into the using() code block.
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| lock() |
Embeds the selection into the lock() code block.
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| block - {} | Encloses the selection in braces. |
| BeginUpdate..EndUpdate |
Embeds the selection between the BeginUpdate and EndUpdate method calls of an object from the clipboard.
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| WaitCursor |
Embeds the selection into the try..finally block, provided that the WaitCursor will be used during the selected code lines' execution.
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| Stopwatch |
Creates a new instance of the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class, embeds the selection into the try..finally block between the Stopwatch.Start() and
Stopwatch.Stop() method calls, and outputs the Stopwatch.Elapsed value to the console.
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| To string | Quotes the selected code section. |
| Comment box | Embeds the selection into the comment box. |
| Parentheses | Embeds the selection into the parentheses. |
| Not Parentheses |
Embeds the selection into the parentheses and places the logical Not (! in C#/C++, Not in VB) before the parentheses.
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Though CodeRush ships with a number of pre-defined embeddings, you can easily extend the list. When adding a custom embedding, you can use all the features that are used in the built-in embeddings. You can specify text to be placed around the selection, where to place the caret, where to insert the clipboard contents, where to drop markers and much more. Please refer to the CodeRush Extensibility page for additional details about this feature.
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