Mareo Code

DevExpress company has a lot of free goodies for .NET developers. Unfortunately Microsoft has asked them to hide DevExpress entry from main menu (only in case of DevExpress freeware tools, for example CodeRush Xpress or DXCore). That’s very annoying behaviour because most of the DXCore community plugins can be accessed from DevExpress menu.

To show DevExpress entry in Visual Studio menu you have to edit or create special registry entry.

If you installed CodeRush Xpress “only for you” then apply this to HKCU hive.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Developer Express\CodeRush for VS\9.2]
"HideMenu"=dword:00000000

if for “everyone” then HKLM hive:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Developer Express\CodeRush for VS\9.2]
"HideMenu"=dword:00000000

In both cases you have to edit CodeRush Xpress version number to particular one installed on your computer. I had version 9.2

Ready to import registry files are below (but remember to change version number).