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

• Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x86)
• Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x64)

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.

I was bitten by a weird Windows Update problem where update KB971092 would continually install and then keep trying to install even though it successfully completes.  Some or most of you that have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed will probably have a similar problem.  So I though I would pass on this information from Neno Loje about how to fix it.

Applies to:

Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (KB971092)

Symptoms:

The update installs successfully and but will be offered again by Windows Update as a new update. This can be repeated indefinitely.

or

the standalone installer tells you that this update “does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your system”.

Workaround (found here):

1. Download the stand-alone version of VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe.
2. Start the installation VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe
3. Wait for the error message to come up – do not close the window
4. Copy the temp. folder where the patch has been unpacked to a new folder, for example onto your desktop.
5. Close VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe that you started in step 2.
6. Navigate to {Program Files}Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7Tools and find vsvars32.bat.
7. Change the permissions on the file to allow everyone to edit it.
8. Start VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.msp from within the saved folder and the process should complete.
9. You may want to reset permissions that you gave in step 7.