CodeRush is a refactoring

Refactoring

Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....

 and productivity plugin by DevExpress that extends native functionality of Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...

 .NET 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010.

CodeRush executes solution-wide static code analysis

Static code analysis

Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...

 (error detection on-the-fly, without the need to compile), provides additional features for error correction, code completion, navigation, search, syntax highlighting, formatting, code generation and optimization, carries out over 180 automated refactoring

Refactoring

Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....

s, and streamlines unit testing using NUnit

NUnit

NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft .NET. It serves the same purpose as JUnit does in the Java world, and is one of many in the xUnit family.- Example :Example of an NUnit test fixture:using NUnit.Framework; [TestFixture]...

, XUnit

XUnit

Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. These frameworks allow testing of different elements of software, such as functions and classes...

, MbUnit and MSTest

MSTest

MSTest is a command line utility from Microsoft that executes unit tests created in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010....

, among other features.
Visual Basic 2010 (VB 10.0)
The latest version, 2010.2, was released on Dec 01, 2010. It supports C# 4.0

C Sharp 4.0

C# 4.0 is the latest version of the C# programming language, which was released on April 11, 2010. Microsoft has released the 4.0 runtime and development environment Visual Studio 2010...

, VB10, ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, XAML

XAML

Extensible Application Markup Language is a declarative XML-based language created by Microsoft used for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise...

 and C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

.

Features

The following is a partial list of CodeRush features and feature groups:

• 180+ Code Refactorings
• 70+ Code Providers
• 120+ Code Issues
• The fastest Test Runner on the market
• Support for multiple unit testing frameworks NUnit
  NUnit
  NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft .NET. It serves the same purpose as JUnit does in the Java world, and is one of many in the xUnit family.- Example :Example of an NUnit test fixture:using NUnit.Framework; [TestFixture]...
  
  , XUnit
  XUnit
  Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. These frameworks allow testing of different elements of software, such as functions and classes...
  
  , MbUnit and MSTest
  MSTest
  MSTest is a command line utility from Microsoft that executes unit tests created in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010....
  
  
• Support for extensible unit testing to support any testing framework
• Visualization Tools
• Advanced Selection Tools
• Clipboard Tools
• Navigation Tools
• Code Templates
• CodeRush Extensibility - Large community of plugins.

Plugins

CodeRush provides an API for developers to create third-party plugins extending core CodeRush functionality, such as:

• Class Cleaner
• Visual Studio Spell Checker
• Documentor
• Method Preview
• Enterprise Library Configuration Tool Launcher
• Commenter
• Copy Project

External links

• Microsoft Overview of CodeRush Xpress Features
• Google Code Community Plugins
• Official DevExpress CodeRush web site
• CodeRush Related Blog Posts
• CodeRush Overview Blog Post
• CodeRush Trial
• DevExpress .NET Blog
• IDETools Tips and Tricks