Tips and Tricks

Open File in Solution tip

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August 31, 2010
I was using the OFIS (Open File in Solution) dialog the other day and it occurred to me that I use some features in it that might not be so apparent to users that didn’t actually write the code for it.  As an aside, this feature was formerly known as Open File in Workspace (or OFIW) before Workspaces were replaced by Solutions in Visual Studio.NET.  It took us a few years after the release…
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Visual Studio 2010 sim-ship

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February 9, 2010
We’re excited to announce plans to simultaneously ship Visual Assist X 10.6 with Visual Studio 2010 this Spring!  As a Visual Studio Industry Partner, we’ve been working hard to make sure the features you’ve come to expect from Visual Assist X are ready to…
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VA X in VS2010 Update

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October 27, 2009
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 released last week, we want to get our next Beta of VA X out as soon as we can.  We are currently working through some breaking changes introduced in Beta 2, but we hope to resolve these quickly and get a build out in the next week or…
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Enhanced suggestions

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October 6, 2009
In our latest builds of Visual Assist X, we’ve been sneaking in some enhancements from our work on the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 beta. We decided to roll these features out early so our users could start enjoying them in currently supported IDEs with out having to…
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VA X in VS2010

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September 15, 2009
VS2010: VA X and C++/CLI Microsoft seems to have challenged themselves to see how much they can change for VS2010 — new WPF shell, snazzy text editor, MEF-based extensibility, VSIX installers, C++ build system, oh my. This is a major release both on the surface and under the hood, and the changes have impacted VA X on all sides.  But we’re happy to report we have VA X running in…
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Tips and Tricks

Add Include

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May 6, 2009
We recently released a feature for C/C++ that has long been requested: Add Include.  A lot of work had previously been put into our #include completion listboxes – but that work is moot because now you don’t need to type #includes directives by hand. The Add…
Tips and Tricks

VA Snippet Tip #1

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March 7, 2009
VA Snippets support a number of reserved strings that enable text substitution when inserted into the text editor.  For example, any occurrence of $selected$ in a snippet is replaced with the actual text editor selection at the time the snippet was invoked. As noted in a…
Tips and Tricks

Methods in File

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February 5, 2009
Here’s a quickie… When you are in a source window, pressing Alt+M displays the VA X Methods in File list. Did you know you can filter the list by typing after the list is displayed?  Yeah, most people know that. Did you know you can filter using multiple strings as in the OFIS and FSIS dialogs?  You can, as of build 1645 (2008.07.10).  The filter supports the use of ‘-&#8216…
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