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 Select, should be valuable to all users of Visual Assist, in all Microsoft IDEs. Four commands comprise Smart Select: Extend…
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Tips and Tricks

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…
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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 extensibility should appeal to every user of the non-extensible Express Edition. If you install Visual Studio Community…
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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…
Tips and Tricks

Tools to understand new code: Go To

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October 27, 2014
You’ve just started a new job and landed in front of a huge code base. Great! What a challenge! It would be nice to quickly get a general understanding of your project and be able to comfortably move around in the code. How do you do it? In my series of articles as a…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2048 is available

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September 26, 2014
Visual Assist build 2048 was issued on the heels of build 2047 in order to fix a regression in the latter. Using build 2047, a VA Snippet that includes a GUID reserved string expands the string to zeros instead of a valid GUID. If you have build 2047 and use VA Snippets to create your GUIDs, you should install build 2048. Visual Assist build 2048 requires software maintenance through…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2047 is available

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September 19, 2014
Visual Assist build 2047 introduces a powerful new navigation command, improves the VA Step Filter, and increases availability of Quick Info. Since the inception of Visual Assist, the Goto (Alt+G) command has been a favorite among our users, even after the IDE introduced…
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Organize VA Snippets with hashtags

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August 31, 2014
For a user with a modest collection of VA Snippets, the built-in type filtering and auto-sorting of the VA Snippet Editor are sufficient tools to manage the collection. Type filtering divides VA Snippets by access method in the UI of Visual Assist, and auto-sorting within…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2043 is available

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July 12, 2014
In our last build, we introduced a powerful feature for users of the native C/C++ debugger in Visual Studio 2010 and newer. The VA Step Filter lets one step into the body of a method without stepping into and out of methods in its parameter list. Build 2043 fixes several bugs in the VA Step Filter, and expands its list of built-in filters. If you use the VA Step Filter, you should download and…
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