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I mentioned before that we love templates in CodeRush and that they're incredibly customizable. I wanted to give a few examples of that and share one of the plugins I wrote for it.

We use Ayende's Rhino Mocks quite a bit. We're also lazy, so I came up with a set of templates for it:

• tfm - Expands to a TestFixture that includes a MockRepository already.
• scm/sdm - Takes whatever is in your clipboard and expands to this:

  someClass = _mocks.CreateMock<SomeClass>();

• =cm/=dm - Similar to scm/sdm, but for when you don't have anything in your clipboard
• mu/mo - Creates a using(_mocks.[Un]ordered()) block
• mra - ReplayAll
• mv/mva - Verify or VerifyAll
• ec - Expect.Call().Return();

One thing I noticed while I was using these is that sometimes I wanted to use them after I'd already written some code that would be in the expansion... for example, say I've already got a class called SomeClassTests but I want to add the TestFixture attribute, add the MockRepository instance variable, etc. Before I had to delete the class and do a tfm on a blank slate. Instead, I spent a few minutes writing a template command plugin that allows you to add an attribute to the class your cursor is in. That enabled me to do what you see in the video below.

Also, say I've already typed the method I was going to set a rhino expectation on. Normally, I'd just have to go to the beginning of the line, type Expect.Call(, go to the end of the line, type the rest. So to solve this, I wrote a few commands: DeleteSemicolon (this one seems a bit buggy w/ the latest CodeRush), GotoBeginningOfLine, and GotoEndOfLine. Now ec, ae, an, ann, etc can all be written to add code around code I've already written as you'll see in the video below.

Bear with me on this video, it's my first attempt at something like this. If anyone can suggest something better than YouTube and a screen recorder for stuff like this that's still free, I'd appreciate it. I don't like being limited to 320x240.

Also, the astute will notice that I'm not running Resharper on this machine. This is my home machine and once again I'm not quite sure about the stability of it (it likes to crash every time I close VS, it breaks some autocomplete scenarios, etc). There are some autocomplete issues in this video, but i think that's just because I had multiple classes named the same thing in this project.

I tried to go slowly so that you can see the templates before I expand them so that hopefully you can get a feel as to how easy it is to write code when you've got templates this powerful. I'm going to upload the source for the plugins as well as my Rhino Mocks templates a bit later today.