Consume-first Development

When coding, it is often useful to use an identifier before it has been declared. This is a common situation for Test Driven Development. CodeRush by DevExpress provides a powerful tool, which enables you to quickly declare types, members, variables on basis of their references.

Automatic Declarations

The automatic declaration features of CodeRush are a quick way to generate the code you need. It starts with a call or a reference to something that doesn't exist yet. Just move the caret to the reference that needs to be declared, press the CodeRush key (Ctrl+` by default) and choose the appropriate code provider from the CodeRush context menu. CodeRush will do the rest, declaring the missing member, type, enum, variable etc. You can also access the declaration features via the Code item of Visual Studio context menu.

If you are declaring a class, enum, struct, or interface, CodeRush deeply scans surrounding source code for hints about the type you want to declare and intelligently declares members for all found references. Watch the video below for an example.

CodeRush supports the following declarations:

Types

	Declare Attribute		Declare Class		Declare Class With Properties
	Declare Delegate		Declare Enum		Declare Interface
	Declare Struct

Members

	Declare Constructor		Declare Event		Declare Event Handler
	Declare Getter		Declare Initialized Properties		Declare Initialized Property
	Declare Method		Declare Method (abstract)		Declare Properties
	Declare Property		Declare Property (auto-implemented)		Declare Property (with backing store)
	Declare Setter

Variables

	Declare Enum Element		Declare Field		Declare Field (read-only)
	Declare Initialized Field		Declare Initialized Fields		Declare Local
	Declare Local (implicit)

MVC Elements

	Declare MVC Action		Declare MVC Controller		Declare MVC View

The automatic declarations can be accessed via shortcuts or from the appropriate code providers.