Declare Menu
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The Declare menu allows you to add a group of members to your types in C# and Visual Basic.
The Declare menu supports the following actions:
- Constructor
- Generates a constructor with parameters that initialize the selected members.
- IDisposable Implementation
- Generates the Dispose pattern and disposes the specified fields and properties.
- Delegate Members
- Creates members that wrap around the contained field’s or property’s members.
- Override Members
- Overrides virtual and abstract methods.
- Missing Members
- Implements any interface members missing from the active class.
- Partial Methods
- Implements any partial methods missing from the active class.
- Equality Members
- Generates two Equals methods and a GetHashCode override, and can optionally generate equality/inequality operator overloads.
- Comparison Members
- Generates a CompareTo implementation, individually compares the specified fields, and optionally implements the IComparable<T> and IComparable interfaces.
- ToString Override
- Generates the ToString() override method code.
- Properties/Read-only Properties
- Generates properties for the selected fields.
How to Use
Invoke the Declare menu. Use one of the following ways:
Place the caret in a member definition and press Alt+Insert.
Place the caret anywhere inside a type, press Ctrl + . or Ctrl + ~ to invoke the Code Actions menu, select the Declare… menu item, and press Enter.
CodeRush shows the Declare menu.
Choose the desired action from the menu (for example, Properties) and press Enter.
Use the mouse or press Space to select the members for which you want to generate properties. The following screenshot shows the selected “fahrenheit” member:
Optional. Tap Ctrl to open the Options menu.
Configure the Options menu. Use the mouse or corresponding letter keys listed in the menu to change options.
Tap Ctrl or press Enter to close the Options menu.
Press Enter to confirm the selection and declare members.
The code snippet below shows the declared “Fahrenheit” property:
public class Temperature {
int fahrenheit;
int celcius;
internal int Fahrenheit {
get
{
return fahrenheit;
}
set
{
fahrenheit = value;
}
}
}
Configuration
You can customize how the Declare menu generates new members.
Open the CodeRush | Options | Editor | C# or Visual Basic | Code Actions | Code Actions Settings options page, and change the “Default body of newly generated methods” and “Style of newly generated properties” settings.
For more information on these settings, refer to the following topic: Code Actions Settings.
Example
Consider the following C# code:
namespace ConsoleApp
{
interface ITest
{
string Name { get; set; }
void MyTest();
}
public class Test: ITest
{
}
}
To generate a MyTest() method with a default return body and declare auto properties in the interface implementer, perform the following actions:
Open the Code Actions Settings options page and set the corresponding settings as shown in the screenshot below:
Invoke the Declare menu, select Missing Members, and press Enter.
The following screencast shows the result:
