Move type feature

Hello Maxim,

I agree with your points 2) and 3) (BTW, please submit them as requests to
the tracker).
As for 1), I think that implementing the functionality you suggest
on top of the VS class view would be too cumbersome, and we currently have
no plans to provide an
equivalent tool in the ReSharper add-in.

Although, personally, what I'm missing most in the current 'Move Type' feature
is that it is not capable of moving nested types.

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

Currently Re#er has 'Move type' feature, which is capable of moving a
single type from one namespace to another. That's useful however not
powerful enough.

1) Do you have any plans to add an ability to drag-and-drop a type
from one namespace to another (using Class View or some similar tool)?
In most cases that would much more convinient (this kind of
refactoring actually affects the 'model' of the application, not the
code itself; thus a visual representation of the model is more
appropriate)

I had some experience with built in Class View (in VS2003, haven't
tested it in VS2005 though...), and it seems it cannot reflect the
changes in the code on-the-fly. There is a noticable delay (for which
I failed to find a reasonable upper bound) between the moment when the
code is changed and the moment when the tree is updated. So having
such kind of view from Re#er would be very nice.

2) Even if the answer to the previous question is negative still we
can improve
the existing feature. One aspect, which I currently dislike, is the
neccessity
to invoke the refactoring for each type is the source code file. Yes,
usually
we have a 'one type -- one file' relation, but sometimes this rule is
violated
(e.g. when I have XXXEventArgs and XXXEventHandler types -- these are
often
put in the same file). Besides being inconvinient, the doulble
refactoring
produces very strange-looking code like
namespace A.B.C
{
<1st type>
}
namespace A.B.C
{
<2nd type>
}
Just to summarize, my suggestions are:

1) (Possibly hard to implement) Drag-and-drop functionality for
ClassView
(either existing one or a completely custom)
2) 'Move all types' refactoring -- should be applicable when all types
in
the current source file are in the same namespace. The expected result
is:
all types are moved to the given destination namespace.
3) Automatically merge namespace declarations after 'Move type'
refactoring.

Hello Dmitry,

I agree with your points 2) and 3) (BTW, please submit them as
requests to the tracker).

Done.

As for 1), I think that implementing the functionality you suggest
on top of the VS class view would be too cumbersome, and we currently
have no plans to provide an
equivalent tool in the ReSharper add-in.

So I can only hope this feature will be implemented in Re#er IDE =)

Although, personally, what I'm missing most in the current 'Move Type'
feature is that it is not capable of moving nested types.

Indeed, that would be very useful. Do you have any plans for implementing
it in 2.0?

Hello Dmitry,

DS> I agree with your points 2) and 3) (BTW, please submit them as
DS> requests to
DS> the tracker).

Those are in tracker for at least several months :)

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

Yes, this feature is mentioned in out plan: "Move Inner Type to Outer Scope
refactoring".


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

>> Although, personally, what I'm missing most in the current 'Move
>> Type' feature is that it is not capable of moving nested types.
>>

Indeed, that would be very useful. Do you have any plans for
implementing it in 2.0?

Hello Dmitry,

BTW, I just looked through the plan again and found the following feature:
Type Hierarchy (in Other). What does this mean? Is it some sort of replacement
for ClassView?

Hello Maxim,

No, it's a tool window that shows type inheritance hierarchy and allows for
fast navigation
to the types related to the given type in that hierarchy.

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

Hello Dmitry,

BTW, I just looked through the plan again and found the following
feature: Type Hierarchy (in Other). What does this mean? Is it some
sort of replacement for ClassView?

Hello Dmitry,

No, it's a tool window that shows type inheritance hierarchy and allows for
fast navigation to the types related to the given type in that hierarchy.

OK, I see now. Thank you for the information.

And their link is?


"Ilya Ryzhenkov" <orangy@netix.ru> wrote in message
news:5992f43b501628c76274d6eb3a34@news.jetbrains.com...

Hello Dmitry,

>

DS> I agree with your points 2) and 3) (BTW, please submit them as
DS> requests to
DS> the tracker).

>

Those are in tracker for at least several months :)
Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

>

Hello Amir,

AK> And their link is?
I will have to search for them as well, so I don't know. I remember I posted
them long ago.

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov