Tips and Tricks

Scope of Refactoring in Universal Solutions

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May 7, 2014
At the Build 2014 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced availability of Universal Solutions in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. When you are ready to explore the functionality of this major improvement to the IDE, you’ll want to know how several often-used commands of Visual Assist operate in this new arena. As a review, a simple Universal Solution is one that has at two or more…
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Tips and Tricks

Sorting One's Code

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April 27, 2014
Visual Assist has a plethora of features, and it’s difficult to know them all. It’s an even greater challenge to use all of them at every opportunity. We had one user, Tom, write recently that his “very small favourite feature” in Visual Assist is…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2031 is available

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April 5, 2014
Greetings from San Francisco! Thank you to all of the customers who stopped by our booth at the Build conference. It’s clear we have ardent supporters. We look forward to providing you with the debugger improvement we demo’d. Expect a beta in a few months. To the many first-time visitors, we hope you find Visual Assist as valuable as we led you to believe. Build 2031 of Visual Assist…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2029 is available

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March 19, 2014
We hope you have check-for-new-versions enabled in the options dialog of Visual Assist, because you wouldn’t have learned about last month’s build of Visual Assist in our blog. We shamefully failed to announce build 2029. Social media isn’t yet part of our…
Tips and Tricks

Using Find References to Manage a Task

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March 18, 2014
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…
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Visit the Tomato at Build 2014

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March 14, 2014
Join Whole Tomato Software at the Build 2014 conference this year, April 2nd-4th in San Francisco. We’ll be demonstrating Visual Assist to the uninitiated, and offering existing customers a sneak preview of an enhancement to the Visual Studio debugger. Stop by to share your stories and suggestions, grab a stress tomato, or show a friend why Visual Assist is a must-have…
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Tips and Tricks

Taming the List of Methods in File

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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…
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Support resources for Visual Assist get a makeover

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January 29, 2014
If you’ve been anywhere near our website in the last month, you’ve undoubtedly noticed we embarked on a major upgrade of the support resources for Visual Assist. We are happy to say we’re finished with the heavy lifting, and done fussing with our discussion forums. Reference material that existed previously in the forums, e.g. examples of VA Snippets, now lives in our knowledge…
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