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Some Bloke - 10 Oct 2006 11:48 GMT

Hi,

I'm working on an ASP.net project that uses typeconverters to save the
state of a page to a Data transfer object and also uses typeconverters
elsewhere.

I'm finding that I'm writing an awful lot of control.value =
dto.property in page load and dto.property = control.value on a
postback. This is less common than it used to be with old ASP because
of data binding but one thing that would still save a lot of time and
tedium would be a quick shortcut in Visual studio that just swapped the
code on either side of an '=' assignment so that you could just select
all the lines that map the properties of the page and object and get
the code to do the opposite in one click instead of 2 cut'n'pastes on
every line.

Does anyone know a tool or perhaps an addin to Visual Studio 2005's
refactor tool that does this?

I'd would SO appreciate it.

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 10 Oct 2006 14:53 GMT

My MZ-Tools add-in (below) has a "Switch Assignment" feature to do that.

http://www.mztools.com/v5/features.htm#SwitchAssignment

It's not free but you get tons of other features.

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Ilya Ryzhenkov - 10 Oct 2006 15:38 GMT

Hello Some,

ReSharper (www.jetbrains.com/resharper) is capable of doing this kind of
refactoring, and much-much more.

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

SB> Hi,
SB>
SB> I'm working on an ASP.net project that uses typeconverters to save
SB> the state of a page to a Data transfer object and also uses
SB> typeconverters elsewhere.
SB>
SB> I'm finding that I'm writing an awful lot of control.value =
SB> dto.property in page load and dto.property = control.value on a
SB> postback. This is less common than it used to be with old ASP
SB> because of data binding but one thing that would still save a lot of
SB> time and tedium would be a quick shortcut in Visual studio that just
SB> swapped the code on either side of an '=' assignment so that you
SB> could just select all the lines that map the properties of the page
SB> and object and get the code to do the opposite in one click instead
SB> of 2 cut'n'pastes on every line.
SB>
SB> Does anyone know a tool or perhaps an addin to Visual Studio 2005's
SB> refactor tool that does this?
SB>
SB> I'd would SO appreciate it.
SB>

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Some Bloke - 11 Oct 2006 12:24 GMT

Thanks,

My company has a Resharper license already so I've used that. I just
didn't know it was in the large list of features.

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Some Bloke - 17 Oct 2006 15:52 GMT

Actually, Having tried out ReSharper and MZ-Tools I find ReSharper
causes too many problems not recognising namespaces and overiding too
many Visual studio short cuts.

MZ-Toolz is much cleaner and less intrusive and I highly recommend it
if anyone's interested.

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Ilya Ryzhenkov - 18 Oct 2006 08:37 GMT

Hello Some,

Could you please tell us what are problems with namespaces?

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

SB> Actually, Having tried out ReSharper and MZ-Tools I find ReSharper
SB> causes too many problems not recognising namespaces and overiding
SB> too many Visual studio short cuts.
SB>
SB> MZ-Toolz is much cleaner and less intrusive and I highly recommend
SB> it if anyone's interested.
SB>

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Dustin Campbell - 10 Oct 2006 15:49 GMT

Our CodeRush tool can perform assignment inversions like that.

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/IDETools/CodeRush/Index.xml

Best Regards,
Dustin Campbell
Developer Express Inc.

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