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CodeRush for free! CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced

Fresh from the DevExpress booth at PDC comes an announcement that DevExpress will be providing a significant subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro for free. You can see the announcement here and Mark Miller gives a more technical overview of what’s available. You can download it from the DevExpress site now.

It’s not all rosy though. The Xpress version is C# only! Go figure? I was very surprised by this since CodeRush and Refactor work with both VB.NET and C# seamlessly. Did they announce the end of VB.Net at PDC?
Another limitation is that CodeRush Xpress edition is not supported in the Express editions of Visual Studio.

Happy Coding…

Posted: Oct 28 2008, 12:58 AM by Kim | with 7 comment(s)

תגים:Visual Studio, Code Editor, CodeRush, DEV

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# October 28, 2008 1:33 AM

ShaharRon said:

There is support for VB and also C++ and ASP. It is just separate downloads:

VB: devexpress.com/.../VBRefactor

ASP: devexpress.com/.../RefactorASP

C++: devexpress.com/.../RefactorCPP

# October 28, 2008 3:10 AM

Kim said:

@ShaharRon, The links you refer to are not those of CodeRush Xpress. There has "always" been a free VB/C++ version of the refactoring tools since the languages didn't have refactoring through the IDE. CodeRush Xpress is a different product that will give you some of the CodeRush goodness in addition to refactoring. I have not installed the tools as I am using the full version, but the announcement explicitly states C#.

# October 28, 2008 3:36 AM

Rory Becker said:

Agreed... It's a strange choice, perhaps more to follow later.. In any case it'll help a much broader group of people see some of the power of Coderush.

But people if you think that this is good... The full version is sooo much better. The template system alone is crazy good.

# October 28, 2008 9:46 AM

Karen Liu said:

Don't worry -- a VB version of CodeRush express will be released as well! We're figuring out how to blend it with the existing VB Refactor! offering.

# December 16, 2008 5:04 PM

boris said:

Installed it this morning. Now all the default VS2008 features have gone. Response times have increased a lot..

Uninstalled untill someone can give me my ctrl+. => implement interface back.

# March 10, 2009 11:40 AM

ajay said:

this slowed down visual studio. it .....

# December 17, 2010 6:58 PM

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