Tips and Tricks

Find References has been a feature of Visual Assist for about a decade. And, while Find References now shares its name with a version of the command integral to Microsoft Visual Studio, the original has pragmatic components that should make it the everyday preference. If during the course of programming, you find yourself reviewing or reworking the code surrounding references to a symbol, Find…

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 uniqueness of identifier name and context of the comment, and there will be plenty of cases where it can’t figure out what…

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 previous post, VA Snippets support shortcuts.  You wouldn’t want to use the $selected$ reserved string with a snippet…

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 invoke highlighting.  Here’s how. First, to disable the default behavior, uncheck the “Highlight find results&#8221…