How to Rebuild your CodeRush Templates

Warning: Please be sure that you have Exported any Custom Templates that you care about before you attempt this.

The templates that you use day to day are stored in your user profile. If you need to rebuild them for some reason, then CodeRush will do so from it's own internal store which does not contain any customizations that you may have made.

Delete your existing Templates.

Deleting your existing Templates is a simple matter of finding the appropriate file and deleting it. These are organised by language under your profile directory.

Mine is located at "C:\Users\Rory.Becker.MyDomain\AppData\Roaming\CodeRush for VS .NET\1.1\Settings\Editor\Templates"

In this folder I have a number of files. I am only interested in rebuilding my Visual Basic ones but you should be able to find suitable files for each language you have been using.

If you are also working with VB.Net, then you should at this point delete (or Move if you're paranoid) 'templates.Basic.bin' and 'templates.Basic.xml'.

Rebuild your Templates.

Next you'll need to perform the actual rebuild.

-------------------------------------------------------------Follow these steps to get to the Templates options page:

1. From the DevExpress menu, select "Options...".
2. In the tree view on the left, navigate to this folder:

    Editor

3. Select the "Templates" options page.
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Now if you make sure of viewing the templates for the language that you wanted to rebuild, you will find that all the standard templates are back.

Next you'll want to Import your Custom Templates