CodeRush

For other uses, see Coderush (disambiguation).

CodeRush Classic
Developer(s)	DevExpress
Stable release	15.1.5 (for Visual Studio 2015/2013/2010/2008/2005), 2.5 (for VS.NET 2003) / July 20, 2015 (2015-07-20)
Preview release	none
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Microsoft Visual Studio add-on for .NET 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2015
License	commercial, $249-1st year, $99-renew
Website	www.devexpress.com/coderush/

CodeRush Classic is a refactoring and productivity plugin by DevExpress that extends native functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio|Visual Studio .NET 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2015.

CodeRush Classic provides solution-wide static code analysis (detecting errors in code at design time), and additional functionality to make it easier to correct code smells, complete code, navigate, search for symbols, highlight the structural elements of the code, format code, and generate and optimize code. CodeRush Classic includes 180 automated refactorings, and streamlines unit testing using NUnit, XUnit, MbUnit and MSTest, among other functionality.

In June 2015, DevExpress released CodeRush for Roslyn,^[1] a version of CodeRush that sits on top of Microsoft's Roslyn engine. In that same release, CodeRush was renamed to CodeRush Classic.

CodeRush Classic supports C# 5.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, and XAML.

Functionality

The following is a partial list of CodeRush functionality groups:

Refactorings
Code Generation Tools
Code Issues
Support for multiple unit testing frameworks NUnit, XUnit, MbUnit and MSTest
Support for extensible unit testing to support any testing framework
Visualization Tools
Debugging 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,^[2] such as:

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

Awards

Best of TechEd08^[3]

Notes and references

External links

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