Tips and Tricks

Support for Incomplete Solutions

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January 22, 2009
Several members of the Whole Tomato Software crew attended the Seattle XNA Gamefest held back in July.  It was a great opportunity for us to get face time with quite a few of our customers.  We received a lot of feedback some of which has bubbled up in VA X 10.5. We learned that many Visual Studio users only work in the IDE for editing and debugging but not for doing builds.  Because it is not…
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Mark All Occurrences

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January 6, 2009
Highlight Find Results is a new feature in Visual Assist X 10.5.  By default, this feature tracks your standard Find commands and highlights all of the find results in the text editor.  Some people may not want this feature enabled by default and would rather manually…
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Refresh Find References

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December 5, 2008
Find References is great at locating references to symbols across your solution.  But did you know that when you just want to search the active file, you can use the Find References in File command?  You get a shorter search duration and the results list window is the same…
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Using Qt 4.4 with Visual Assist

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November 20, 2008
If you are using Visual Studio with Qt, you can ensure a more productive experience by adding the Qt directories to your Visual Studio list of includes. In Visual Studio, add the following directories to the Win32 Platform Include files list (Tools|Options|Projects and Solution|VC++…
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VA Snippets

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October 23, 2008
VA Snippets allow you to create reusable and easily accessed blocks of text that can be inserted into the text editor by typing shortcuts directly into the editor. In order for VA Snippets to be offered to you while you are typing, make sure that the “Include VA…