We released a feature some time ago that we failed to document, and since its UI is subtle, there is a good chance you know about it only if you follow our release notes closely. I raise the feature for two reasons: 1) it’s valuable, and 2) now it’s documented. The feature is Create Method Implementations, and it gives you a quick way to create implementations of all methods of a…
Taming the List of Methods in File
February 26, 2014
Visual Assist includes a List Methods in File (Alt-M) feature, inaptly named because the list has grown to include more than just methods, that is a convenient way to navigate a large file. But, even if you use filtering to target specific entries, the list is sometimes…
alt+g in Comments
September 8, 2010
If you don’t read our build change history page, you might miss some small gold nuggets. For example, back in build 1734, we added an enhancement to our goto command (alt+g) so that it operates within comments. The accuracy of goto within comments depends upon…
Open File in Solution tip
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…
Add Include
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…
VA Snippet Tip #1
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…
Methods in File
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 ‘-‘…
Support for Incomplete Solutions
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…
Mark All Occurrences
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…
Refresh Find References
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 one you use with Find References.
The Find References results list has a Refresh button that allows you to re-execute a…
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