Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio
Recently I have been going back and forth between R# and CodeRush. Right now I am in my CodeRush phase trying out the functionality with CodeRush Xpress, however I found it lacking in the way that you couldn’t actually change the options that were setup for you by default. This happens in CodeRush Xpress probably out of an attempt to make the use of CodeRush more simplistic to the Xpress users, or maybe they don’t want to give all the tweaking options in the free version. Either way it was annoying because I like some of the features but others just slow me down when I am working through a Remote Desktop connection by constantly tiggering redraws of the Visual Studio interface code window.
Eventually Rory Becker, who is a CodeRush fanatic, turned me on to two different way you can access the Options menu of CodeRush Xpress.
The Keyboard Command Way
Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O
The Registry Hack Way
Hope this helps somebody besides me.
Update: Sorry about that had a server configuration mishap for delivering Windows Registry files, I have moved them to my Google Code download location.
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August 4th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio…
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August 5th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Neither reg file link seems to work.. Also last I checked .. Such changes were version dependent ( ie 9.1, 9.2)
August 5th, 2009 at 6:33 am
http://www.coderjournal.com/uploads/2009/08/ShowMenuCodeRushXpress_x32.reg not working…?
August 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Sorry about that, for some reason IIS is blocking the downloads, probably just need to tweak something. They should be back up as of posting this message.
- Rory
Also as far as I am aware there is only a 9.1.5 version of CodeRush Xpress. Is there a 9.2 version, that I don’t know about, yet?
September 28th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Thanx man!!
October 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
<strong>Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio…</strong>
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October 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
http://www.coderjournal.com/uploads/2009/08/ShowMenuCodeRushXpress_x32.reg not working…?
October 8th, 2009 at 9:17 am
That is because the link points to my Google Code Repository:
http://coderjournal.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Posts/2009/08/ShowMenuCodeRushXpress_x32.reg
Not my own website.
January 6th, 2010 at 1:05 am
It’s very helpful!! thanks a lot!.
by the way, the x86 registry path is moved to 9.3
January 7th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Thanks Shelly,
Yes I know it has moved. I update with a new post for each registry path change:
http://www.coderjournal.com/2010/01/show-coderush-xpress-9-3-menu-in-visual-studio/