CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Released – Better (memory usage), Faster (performance) and still free…

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog - CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships

“The free CodeRush Xpress from DevExpress provides C# and VB developers with powerful extensions to Visual Studio. These features include editing and refactoring tools that make it easier for you to quickly produce well designed code. Version 9.2 of CodeRush Xpress, which shipped on August 25, 2009, has greatly improved memory and performance characteristics.

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The new features in CodeRush Xpress 9.2 include:

• Faster Performance
• Reduced Memory Consumption
• Support for Preprocessor Directives
• Background Processing Progress Bar 

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Mark Miller - What's New in CodeRush 9.2

“Here's what you can expect in the CodeRush 9.2 release.

Faster Performance

A new symbol cache, built the first time you open a solution improves the speed of subsequent solution parses dramatically. Now the speed to go from opening a solution to being able to refactor anywhere in that code base increases by 200%-500% for large solutions. More details on the performance improvements can be found here.

Additional performance enhancements:

• First startup after install is now significantly faster -- plug-in profile data now ships with the install and the plug-in profiling step is no longer part of the first startup.

• Background parsing, if running, is now suppressed during a solution build.

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Reduced Memory Consumption

CodeRush 9.2 uses dramatically less memory. Project symbols are now cached, and only loaded when needed. Recently-accessed members are kept in memory, while stale members are aggressively released. As a result, customers with large solutions can expect reductions in overall memory consumption by 100MB-200MB…

Manual Load and Unload

Normally CodeRush loads on startup, and unloads when Visual Studio shuts down. CodeRush 9.2 adds the ability to defer loading to another time after startup, and also adds the ability to unload CodeRush while Visual Studio remains running. This may be useful for developers running into memory issues

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DevExpress - CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB

“CodeRush Xpress is freely available to all Visual Studio 2008 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code - making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.

Quick Info
File Name:	CodeRushXpress-9.2.4.exe
Download Size:	32.5 MB
Date Published:	25-Aug-2009
Version:	2009.2.4
Supported IDEs:	Visual Studio 2008

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Some of my coding is done on a lower end machine, so performance and memory improvements are officially a “good thing” for me. :)

 

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