04 Aug 2009

Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio

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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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10 Responses to “Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio”

  1. Reply Rory Becker says:

    Neither reg file link seems to work.. Also last I checked .. Such changes were version dependent ( ie 9.1, 9.2)

  2. Reply Nick Berardi says:

    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?

  3. Reply Boughanmi says:

    Thanx man!!

  4. Reply CL says:

    <strong>Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio…</strong>

    You’ve been kicked (a good thing) – Trackback from DotNetKicks.com…

  5. Reply Nick Berardi says:

    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.

  6. Reply Shelly says:

    It’s very helpful!! thanks a lot!.
    by the way, the x86 registry path is moved to 9.3

  7. Reply Nick Berardi says:

    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/

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