Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

Delphi Prism comes with a nice “Sync Editing” feature. Unfortunately it’s not enabled by default, because it relies on an external “DXCore” assembly, which is available as free download from DevExpress. This “Sync Edit” works for methods only currently, but it does that in a very intuitive way, you don’t have to remember any shortcuts, just write. As little bonus it also gives you “animated bookmarks”. These bookmarks are used for example when you press CTRL-SHIFT-V to declare a local variable or property (which depends on the name you give).

DevExpress is a component set and productivity plugin vendor who serves the VCL and .NET market. DXCore is a base library which is heavily used by their CodeRush and Refactor products.

To finally enable Sync Editing after installing DXCore you need to copy one file manually. Just follow the steps in this  Prism Wiki article.

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