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Visual Assist and Visual Studio 2015 RTM

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July 22, 2015
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 RTM this week. Visual Assist build 2068–the most recent build–supports the new IDE but not yet at release quality. There are a few known issues that will be resolved in our forthcoming builds: Enhanced listboxes–the ones with colored content and filtering toolbar–are available in C/C++ only. They are not yet available in C#. Not all internal quality…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2068 is available

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June 12, 2015
Visual Assist build 2068 introduces Add Braces and Remove Braces–commands that simplify converting of a statement to a compound statement, and vice versa. The most efficient way to use the feature is to bind a shortcut to VAssistX.BracesToggle, which as its name implies…
Tips and Tricks

Reset zoom level of Visual Studio to 100%

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May 23, 2015
If you have ever been frustrated by an inadvertent zoom-in or zoom-out in Visual Studio, you probably know there is no convenient way in the IDE to reset the zoom level to 100%. Instead, the IDE requires you to “reset” via increments until you reach 100%. These inadvertent zooms occurred often enough among the developers of Visual Assist that one of them created a more efficient…
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Visual Assist build 2062 is available

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April 11, 2015
Visual Assist build 2062 introduces VA Hashtags—a combination of named bookmarks and task manager. Place hashtags anywhere in your comments and Visual Assist will let you navigate among them efficiently. Because VA Hashtags are embedded in comments, they act like…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2059 is available

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February 14, 2015
Visual Assist build 2059 introduces a set of commands that extend/shrink the text selection. We implemented and tested numerous versions of the commands and settled on implementations we believe are rather clever. Our extend/shrink commands, collectively called Smart…
Tips and Tricks

Tools to understand new code: Enhanced Syntax Coloring

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January 31, 2015
In my previous posts as guest contributor to this blog, I showed you how to use Go-To tools and different Find commands in Visual Assist. In this post, I describe improvements to syntax coloring available in Visual Assist, then close with a description of a tool window that combines several functions of the IDE and Visual Assist. As in my previous posts, I will use Irrlicht Engine as my…
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Tools to understand new code: Find

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November 23, 2014
In my previous post as a guest contributor, I talked about moving between declaration and implementation of various symbols: methods, classes, variables… and even include files. The functionality helps a lot, but there are other tools in Visual Assist that we…
News

Visual Assist supports Visual Studio Community 2013

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November 14, 2014
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Visual Studio Community 2013—a terrific addition to its lineup of IDEs. In addition to being fully featured, Visual Studio Community 2013 provides access to the Visual Studio extensibility ecosystem, including to Visual Assist. This…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2052 is available

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November 9, 2014
It’s not often one gets to write “introduce” twice in a sentence, but here goes: Visual Assist introduces Introduce Variable. Introduce Variable, a powerful refactoring for C/C++ and C#, replaces an expression with a meaningfully named variable. In classic Visual Assist style, the UI to Introduce Variable is simple and understated: Select an expression to…
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